Re: [lojban] Should we have another mailing list for abstruse discussions?

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

mi tugni la remod lo du'u le preti pu to nordji la'a toi tolclite .i
lo nu reisku cu sei mi te simlu se'u se jicmu lo za'i sruma lo du'u lo
mukti be lo nu nelci la lojban be'o poi na simsa lo mukti pe lo reisku
cu na vajni .i da'i lo nu do lanli ro glibau jufra pa'a tu'a lo lojbo
pu lo nu do ciska ri cu se bapli .i do noroi kakne lo nu mrilu .i su'o
mi'a nelci lo nu bau la lojban casnu  gi'enai lanli roda
         --gejyspa


On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 5:50 PM, John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I didn't mean to be rude, but it is a fair point, nonetheless and I am genuinely
> interested.  I am glad you find other joys in in it than clarity of argument and
> syntactic form.  I hope that the investigation into the minutiae will turn up
> devices that you can use to even more pleasing effects.  And do follow along,
> you will learn quite a bit (not necessarily things you want to know, to be
> sure).  Meanwhile, you can have your vegetables (if that is not too rude) and I
> my rabbit with uninterfering pleasure.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Remo Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com>
> To: lojban@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Tue, September 20, 2011 4:29:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [lojban] Should we have another mailing list for abstruse
> discussions?
>
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:09 PM, John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Well, in keeping with the saying, what is the attraction of Lojban to you?
>
> Personally I find this an extremely rude response.
>
> The reasons I like Lojban are the more diverse and the fact that it
> can attract different people is a testimony of its greateness.
>
> You may think it's a nice abstract toy to dissect, I like the sound
> and the shape of the sentences. I like tanru and I like zo'e and I
> like how sentences come out as different from any other language that
> I know.
>
> I'm not interested in the hidden corner of the grammar, unless they
> bring something to the understanding of the language itself. If the
> only way to understand what you are talking about is to come up at
> your level of knowledge, probably I won't need your explanation.
>
> As Seneca said:
>
> "in eodem prato bos herbam quaerit, canis leporem, ciconia lacertam"
>
> remod
>
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