[lojban] Re: Why linguists might be interested in Lojban (was: RE: Re: a new kind of fundamentalism

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On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Robin Turner wrote:

> I imagine cognitive linguists would also find it interesting from the
> point of metaphor.  Lojban combines the explicit metaphor-making of
> lujvo (which are not metaphorical in the common sense of the word, but
> are in the cogling sense) with an attempt to suppress unmarked metaphor
> (which to a mainstream cognitive linguist would be quixotic but
> interesting).


Can you explain more about what Lojban is doing that seems quixotic to
linguists? Thanks!



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