| In a message dated 7/18/2001 1:03:08 AM Central Daylight Time,
xod@sixgirls.org writes: You seem to be saying that you can get everything offered by the This is a really lousy analogy. The answer to the final question is pretty clearly "Yes," as has been demonstrated over the 100+ years of automotive history, so that side of the analogy goes out. The other side would be to ask whether you would be happier in a car designed by someone who could read blueprints or someone who only an a sensitive butt for the comfort of the ride. Happily, for the most part the designers of Lojban are also among its better speakers/writers/users. Whether they live/think in Lojban is unclear, but probably irrelevant, since Lojban has no life aside from the language itself and thus does not really present the possibilities such idioms usually intend for natural languages. |