Hey Robin,
For sure, as a Lojban newbie, I'm skating on
thin ice here...
But I can see a lot of mechanisms in Lojban
where, if they were removed, then the language would be highly difficult to use
for informal communication.
On the other hand, natural languages are really
redundant -- you could remove a LOT of mechanisms from a natural language and it
would still be practically usable, because there are so many
workarounds...
With Lojban, clearly there are no (or hardly any)
mechanisms that could be removed and still leave the language usable.....
And my guess is that there are a few
mechanisms that will still be added to Lojban in the future to make the
language more usable (though given my relative ignorance I hesitate to suggest
what these might be at this stage...)
It seems like it has been a lot of work to add
enough mechanisms to Lojban to make it usable without sacrificing the spirit of
the language..
-- Ben
----- Original Message -----From: Robin Lee PowellSent: Friday, March 18, 2005 1:11 PMSubject: [lojban] Re: lojban ills: implicit emphasisOn Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:13:22AM -0500, Ben Goertzel wrote:
> Even if one found another logical-language-structure that was
> fundamentally better than Lojban, I still suspect it would take a
> lot of effort to "tune" it into a really workable language (which
> so far as I can tell, Lojban *just barely* is, in spite of all the
> work that's gone into it...)
Any justification for that last bit?
-Robin, who has written almost 30K words in Lojban in the last 3
months.
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