[lojban] Re: Language evolution

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

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:01:35PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> A language that conveyed all information unambiguously, say Ferrer
> i Cancho and Sol?, would have a separate word for every thing,
> concept or action it referred to. Such a language would be
> formidably complicated for the speaker: the green of grass, for
> example, would be represented by a totally different word to the
> green of sea, an emerald or an oak leaf.

Sorry.  If I had read this paragraph before I sent it here, I
wouldn't have bothered.

What utter tripe.

-Robin

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