[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojsk and Voksigid

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 08:33:28PM +0100, Vid Sintef wrote:
> mi'e vid
> 
> Lately I heard of these curious brother and sister of Lojban:
> 
> http://www.netgotham.com/lojsk

I've never heard of this either.  It seems vaguely interesting.  I
definately like the idea of single-syllable words.  The really
serious problem is that Lojsk is going to be even more sensitive to
noisy environments than Lojban is, if that's possible.  The n/6
distinction seems ill-advised, to start with.

I note that eir solution to cmene is broken:
http://www.netgotham.com/lojsk_cmen.html.  Ey can't have cmen with
cm_ or tlan in them, but ey doesn't seem to have noticed this.

> http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/3141/voksigid.html

Woefully underspecified, and probably requires quite a few more
syllables than Lojban.

    http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/3141/vs.html

    5. Neither definite nor indefinite articles will be necessary.
    Each preposition will delimit a noun phrase, since all
    prepositional phrases can be analyzed as a preposition, an
    object-of-preposition noun, and zero or more nouns-used-as-
    adjectives.

Umm.  What? The use of prepositions does *not* solve the
definite/indefinite problem, let alone the realis problem.

-Robin

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