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[lojban] Re: Loglan



Jordan DeLong scripsit:

> Why is a specific toggle cmavo for loglan (which has difficulties
> in terms of parsing mentioned) any better than fu'ivla?  {me zoi
> loglan. fooo foo foo .loglan. brodo brodo}, etc, works fine.  It's
> what we use for accessing words from other languages. 

Actually that won't work: it means "x1 is an instance of the words
'fooo foo foo', not their referents.

-- 
John Cowan    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan   <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
    "Any legal document draws most of its meaning from context.  A telegram
    that says 'SELL HUNDRED THOUSAND SHARES IBM SHORT' (only 190 bits in
    5-bit Baudot code plus appropriate headers) is as good a legal document
    as any, even sans digital signature." --me