Re: [lojban-beginners] About reading speed of lojban text. Compared with natlang's text.

[Alan Post <alanpost@sunflowerriver.org>]

I'll chime in with my novice experience reading (and particularly
writing) Lojban.

When writing Lojban, I'm inspired to add additional, clarifying details
that I would not add to an English sentence.  This makes my Lojban
longer and presumably more precise.  When speaking with people with
more fluency in Lojban than I have, I've been surprised when they
suggest something to me that I consider too imprecise--I suspect as
my own comfort in Lojban increases the context I'm willing to assume
while writing will tend more toward brevity than it currently does.

-Alan

On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 12:50:05PM -0700, spermwhale.warrior wrote:
> Hi everyone !
> I'm not fluent in lojban at all, but I like study its linguistic
> properties.
> I wondered something ... With such an high syllables's rate (I ask the
> rather fluent speakers/writers among us), comparing two short text,
> with typical constructs we use every day, such as : comparatives,
> conditionnals, vocatives, citations from someone else, simples logical
> links between otherwise independent sentences.
> One in lojban ... and one in english, or any langage you are the most
> fluent in.
> The two text written with the same look towards semantic details,
> except when (whatever is considered as) evidents inferences from
> context can be made.
> 
> My question is the following : are you able, to read the lojban piece
> of text speedier than or as speedily as the chosen natlang piece of
> text ?
> 
> Or not ?
> 
> Does lojban's preciseness and accuracy towards semantic content of its
> constructs make it inherently long-winded ?
> 
> ps: I am fluent only in French, and as you know French guys are the
> worst students in foreign languages of the EU. If you wince in reading
> me, please remember it !
> 
> Thank you, Mehdi
> 
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