[lojban] Re: Minimal Lojban

[John E Clifford <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

MIssent:
>Insofar as Lojban is a language based on logic,
the strict minimum
>would be brivla, PA, KOhA, and I JA (or the
corresponding Polish
>notation).  To this we might add -- stressing
the "language" part --
>some tense and modal operators, question words,
{ko}, and attitudinals
>(indluding perhaps discursives and the like --
but this is getting
>away from vasic rather rapidly).  Along another
line, adding LA and
>cmene and maybe LE also has logical precedence. 
Then the devices for
>grouping tanru, which, while theoretically
eliminable, are almost
>never practically so.
>Then the abstractions and after that BAI and the
like.  The assumption
>is that everything after the first part can in
theory be dealt with in
>the most basic format (assuming that the brivla
list is suitably
>complete -- an untested claim).  The reduction
is also largely
>untested  and is probably false for any
interesting sense.  There is
>also, of course, an urLojban, the lowest level
of linguistic analysis
>at the sentence level, the "source" of both
sentence construction and
>semantic analysis, but that is unspeakable --
though the ideal in
>Lojban is (theoretically again) to make the
surface structure as as
>near as speakingly possible to it.