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Re: [lojban-beginners] Practicality of learning/speaking Lojban
Jonathan Jones wrote:
The stated primary purpose of Lojban is to be a language which both
humans and computers can understand, so that one can speak to both using
the same language (rather than for example, English with humans and C++
with computers), so, there's that.
Actually, that is NOT the primary purpose, but one possible secondary
purpose. From the intro brochure (largely unchanged for 25 years):
Why was Lojban developed?
Lojban was originally designed for the purpose of supporting research
on a concept known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: "the structure of a
language constrains the thinking of people using that language".
Lojban allows the full expressive capability of a natural language,
but differs in structure from other languages in major ways. This
allows its use as a test vehicle for scientists studying the
relationships between language, thought, and culture.
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>Other uses for Lojban
Lojban was designed as a human language, and not as a computer
language. It is therefore intended for use in conversation, reading,
writing, and thinking. However, since Lojban can be processed by a
computer much more easily than can a natural language, Lojban-based
computer applications are a natural expectation. Due to its
unambiguous grammar and simple structure, it can be easily parsed by
computers, making it possible for Lojban to be used in the future for
computer-human interaction, and perhaps conversation. Lojban's
predicate structure is similar to AI, suggesting it as a powerful
tool in AI processing, especially in the storing and processing of
data about the world and people's conceptions of it. Linguists are
interested in Lojban's potential as an intermediate language in
computer-aided translation of natural languages. Other people are
interested in Lojban as an international language.
lojbab
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Bob LeChevalier lojbab@lojban.org www.lojban.org
President and Founder, The Logical Language Group, Inc.
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