[lojban] Human lojban skills -- or transhuman ones?

["Cyril Slobin" <slobin@ice.ru>]

The topic about lojban skills scoring is raised here and there. I
believe that lojban is different from any other language in at least
one important feature:  while using any external tools (vocabularies,
translation soft and so on) is considered cheating in language exams,
such tools are very natural for lojban. I myself never use lojban
outside my comfortable workplace with good Internet access. Therefore
I do not put too much effort into vocab memorising -- online vocab is
always close at hand. And if and when I'll rich enough to spend my
vacation in lojbanistan, I'll own some sort of a wearable computer.
After all, lojban is closely related to transhumanism, isn't it?

So my idea is: when we will invent lojban fluency exams, divide them
into two categories: (1) traditional -- brain only, no external tools,
and (2) transhuman -- with a full access to any tools a person wishes
to use. This resembles and idea by Vernor Vinge: in his "bubble" novel
chess world cup was separate for humans and human-computer teams.

-- 
Cyril Slobin <slobin@ice.ru> `When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said,
http://wagner.pp.ru/~slobin/ `it means just what I choose it to mean'


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