[lojban] Re: Language evolution

[Invent Yourself <xod@thestonecutters.net>]

On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 08:08:58PM -0400, Invent Yourself wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > ma naldrani
>
> le sidbo be le nu le cimni bangu cu sarcu le ka satci


fancu fo tu'a lo kampabdu'i .enai lo kamsarcu .i va'i satci ma



> > .i le ni sinxa cu tolpabdu'i le jei satci
>
> "tolpabdu'i" ?= inversely proportional?
>
> If so, I don't think that means what you want it to mean, because
> what you just said means "As the number of symbols increases, the
> amount of truth decreases".


le jei ko'a jetnu cu drata le jei ko'a satci .i zo ni mapti zo sinxa ni'i
le du'u su'oreda sinxa .i ku'i zo jei mapti zo satci ni'i le du'u ckilu
do'e li 0 do'e li 1

je'u le ni sinxa cu pabdu'i le jei lo sinxa cu satci




-- 
Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a
reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by
means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment,
destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is
fear.