Re: [lojban] Re: Language evolution

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

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 08:08:58PM -0400, Invent Yourself wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:01:35PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > > A language that conveyed all information unambiguously, say Ferrer
> > > i Cancho and Sol?, would have a separate word for every thing,
> > > concept or action it referred to. Such a language would be
> > > formidably complicated for the speaker: the green of grass, for
> > > example, would be represented by a totally different word to the
> > > green of sea, an emerald or an oak leaf.
> >
> > Sorry.  If I had read this paragraph before I sent it here, I
> > wouldn't have bothered.
> 
> ma naldrani 

le sidbo be le nu le cimni bangu cu sarcu le ka satci

> .i le ni sinxa cu tolpabdu'i le jei satci

"tolpabdu'i" ?= inversely proportional?

If so, I don't think that means what you want it to mean, because
what you just said means "As the number of symbols increases, the
amount of truth decreases".

-Robin

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