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Re: [lojban] Re: livejournal discrimination
On 11/6/06, Yanis Batura <ybatura@mail.ru> wrote:
On 06.11.2006, 22:08, Matt Arnold wrote:
> lokadin, <...>
> Secondly I must say this: The passages you cited do not describe an
> alternative capitalization. They show how to capitalize words whose
> stress breaks the stress rules of Lojban, and _only_ those words.
> Lojban does not permit that capitalization on words which obey the
> stress rules.
> Your post is not valid Lojban. You have not shown that it is. The
> Lojban blog appears on the homepage and is the public face of the
> language community. It is acceptable to make mistakes in Lojban on the
> blog and discuss how to correct them. It is even acceptable to
> deliberately show variation that deviates from Lojban, as you have
> done. But it may only be done in order to have a thought experiment
> for us to discuss. You have to label it as not Lojban. You are not
> allowed to pass it off as real Lojban and confuse beginners who come
> to the blog. <...>
What is *real* Lojban? Where can I listen to it or at least read it?
Yanis
Yanis,
Real Lojban is not necessarily perfect Lojban. You won't find
perfection anywhere. But it's possible to know what Lojban is, and to
come close enough to recognize it. Even the CLL only comes 99.999999
percent close, because it has some errors.
It's good enough that we have recognition. When you vary so much that
those who know Lojban extremely well can't recognize it, that's a lot
more than making a slight difference that is still recognizable.
-Eppcott