[lojban] Re: The Lojban Wikipedia is up

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

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 06:58:13PM -0400, xod wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 06:46:45PM -0400, xod wrote:
> >>Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >>>I still think ralcku is asinine, though.  mutmi'i I mind a lot less
> >>>than I used to, although I think it's rarely the best choice for
> >>>"software" (too broad).
> >>>
> >>Lujvo should focus primarily on use-function -- how it appears to
> >>the user -- as opposed to technical precision.
> >>
> >
> >As long as two lujvo are more-or-less the same number of syllables, I
> >*utterly* disagree.
> 
> It's like saying a pen is "a small cylinder with one messy end"
> instead of "like a pencil, only with ink". One is more literal, but
> the other is a whole lot more useful.

"Technical precision" and "literalism" are not the same thing.  I find
the latter definition much more technically precise than the former
becase it encodes more information about what the object does (i.e. it
has more ancillary places that are relevant).

-Robin

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