[lojban] Re: Language evolution

[Invent Yourself <xod@thestonecutters.net>]

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> 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.



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