[lojban-beginners] Re: learning lojban

[Carl Lumma <carl@lumma.org>]

>Another question with any constructed language is whether the language fits 
>the baby's expectation of what language is like. There are linguistic 
>universals, which apparently describe the kinds of languages we can learn. 
>Esperanto fits them well enough that children find it easier to learn than 
>natlangs, but Klingon was designed to violate some of them. I ran through a 
>list of them

Do you have a cite for any of this?

>(which was difficult, as several of them mention adjectives and 
>other things that don't exist in Lojban, at least as a distinct part of 
>speech) and found only one clear violation: in "these three blue houses",
>if all three modifiers are on the same side of "houses", "three" is in
>the middle,

Say again?

>but the Lojban is {ci vi blanu zdani}. So I think it should be fairly 
>easy.

So your evaluation is that lojban should be learnable?

-Carl