[lojban] Re: That's mostly for spanish readers

[Allan Bailey <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

English, and other 'natural' languages have builtin (evolved?) redundancy.

lojban does not, as far as I can tell.

-allan


"Craig" <ragnarok@pobox.com> wrote:
>>Here it goes (it was sent to me by a friend as a joke):
>
>>"Sgeun un etsduio de una uivenrsdiad ignlsea, no ipmotra el odren en el
>>que las ltears etsan ersciats, la uicna csoa ipormtnate es que la pmrirea y
>la
>>utlima  ltera esten ecsritas en la psiocion cocrrtea. El rsteo peuden estar
>>ttaolmntee mal y aun pordas lerelo sin pobrleams. Etso es pquore no lemeos
>cada
>>ltera por si msima snio que  la paalbra es un tdoo."
>
>>I don't know of any spanish-speaker in the lojbangirz but xorxes.
>
>I speak reasonable Spanish; I'm not quite fluent writtenly and a bit weaker
>spokenly.
>
>However, for non-speakers, I'll try an English translation:
>
>Acocndirg to a sdtuy by an Elginsh uivenrstiy, the odrer in wchih ltetrs are
>witretn dosne't mtaetr; the olny tinhg taht mtetars is that the fisrt and
>lsat letetr be wtitren in the crorcet psiotion. The rset can be ttoally
>wonrg and you can siltl raed it wituoht porbelms. Tihs is bceusae we dno't
>raed eervy ltteer by istlef but isentad the wrod as a wolhe.
>
>
>Note that I don't find the above to be true; there are further restrictions
>that seem to be maintained in the original and which I have tried to keep in
>the translation. For instance, any recognizable endings (-tion, for
>instance) must remain intact. Generally also the second-to-last letter, when
>the last is a pluralizing morpheme, should be intact as well.
>
>Now someone just has to try a Lojban version!
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> -- .kreig.daniyl.
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>considered opinion. I recommend flipping a coin."
> -Mark Shoulson
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.allan.