Re: [lojban] Re: That's mostly for spanish readers

[GREGORY DYKE <gregory.dyke@epfl.ch>]

In spite of Robin's request that we just shut up, I still feel the need
to pursue the point.

Xah: 
> such "stories" is a probable folk lore, esp the way now they are 
> being 
> spread. They have a lot to do with social psychology.

Ok, I completely missed the point that this was passing itself off as
the results of actual *research*. Obviously, noone is going to do any
actual research about this, since the conclusions are self-evident - we
know perfectly well that most of human communication has more to do with
glorking than any actual rules. 
 
> Did you know that you can actually randomize paragraphs of any 
> book and 
> lose no understanding? 

Poppycock! try this with CLL for a start - then try with - say - "An
introduction to western philosophy". Glorking, combined with short term
memory and the fact that people are very poor at structuring emails in
the first place (thus training the brain to reorder paragraphs anyway),
means that you could do this with my email.

I 
> have 
> also learned that Eskimo has a hundred words for snow. 

So does English, so what!? Lojban is cool because it can write these
words with or without spaces, mirroring itself at will on Eskimo or English.

I did probably think the idea was overly cool - as evidenced by my
kneejerk reply, but your manner of dismissing the idea was annoying:

- It does not necessarily deserve such off-handed dismissal - it is a
more interesting point than many.  
- This is not the sort of list where people feel the need to all say
"hey yeah, this is right" , "me too" , "wow! that is so cool" 
- It would probably have trouble working in lojban - what does this say
for lojban being a "human-readable" language. It may be important to
congnitive science to find out how the human brain copes with lojban's
stringent rules. Just how different from other languages does having the
wierdest morphology ever make lojban?

Greg