RE: RE: Re[2]: Dr. James Cooke Brown

[Emerson Mitchell <EmersonCM@compuserve.com>]

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Message text written by "And Rosta"

"3. Find an additional Little Word doublet that is unassigned in both
dialects. Rather than having toggle functions, then, one doublet would
introduce
Lojban mode and the other would introduce classical mode.
This option seems the most hassle-free, but I don't have the relevant
wordlists available to assess its viability."


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I suggest 'Hoa Lojban.' to start speaking Lojban when ones audience might
include Loglan auditors, and 'Xo'a Loglan.' in the other direction. Note
the full sentence stops, preventing attachment to the following speech,
this is a deliberate part of the suggestion. Then treat them like toggles.

If one objects that these speech fragments are not sentences, one can
obviously expand to full sentences along the lines of 'nnext I'm sepeaking
. . .', but I don't think that would be necessary. 

Or just toggle and count on the sense to disambiguate. A beautiful example
of this was mailed earlier, although I am not sure whoall got it.

Here's another friendly suggestion: each side should check the other sides
dictionary for words that could be incorporated unchanged without damage to
the respective grammers. The Loglan Institute would have to relax the
copyright a bit, so maybe this is a non-starter. I know JCB would
disapprove.

My first thought was that each language could start by making the name for
the other an accepted primitive. The generalization to adding other words
just popped into my head.