Re: [lojban] lojban audial recognition etc.

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/27/2001 2:02:47 PM Central Standard Time,
Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de writes:

BTW, IMHO one reason for new Lojban-interested people getting bored off and
leaving again might be long philosophical threads of
the DJUNO/KRICI kind - whereas basic vocabulary to express ourselves is
still missing or at least not at all obvious! (like:
"already"/"still", "not yet"/"no longer" etc. - Don't remember the old
thread about this topic, which - as far I recall - had no real
conclusion: naza'o/za'onai ???)

  Shouldn't we better leave the ivory tower and turn toward people instead of
   discussing

"linguistic"
specialties as sort of an oblivious and eccentric navel gazing?

Yes, but...  those "ivory tower discussions" get started precisely because
people have practical problems about how to say bip or what they have
actually said when they say boo. We don't just pick these topics out of the
air; they arise out of real problems.  And they continue until something like
a real solution is reached.  We may (and in the case of {djuno} have) revive
a topic from time to time to see if the solution still works in new
environments or to clarify unnoticed (or forgotten) aspects of the solution.
The content of the discussion may get technical or polyglot or abstract, but
the motivation is always ultimately practical.