[lojban] Re: emotions

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 12:55:48PM -0500, Eddy Ohlms wrote:
> How do you express emotions with a language that is logical? 

In the case of Lojban, very effectively.  In fact, the amazing
facility of the emotive words is one of the reasons I stuck with the
language.

> How can we speak a logical language if we are not logical?

Well, I can't speak for you, but some of the people on the main list
are so logical it makes my head hurt.  8)

But, in fact, you shouldn't have to understand formal logic to speak
Lojban, at least at a concious level.  Or at least, we think so.
That's a question that won't be answered until there are native
speakers.

> Emotions can not be expressed unambiguiously.

Sure they can!

"I love you" and "I hate you" are both *very* unambiguous.

But just because Lojban's underlying *grammer* is unambiguous
doesn't mean that you can't express complicated or strange or
meaningless things with it.

lo gerku cu zdani -- A dog is a house.

-Robin

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