[lojban] Re: lojban ills: implicit emphasis

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

As I recall, someone tried to do combinatorics on
selbri to expalin especially tanru (hence lujvo)
in a systematic way.  This was probably in the
80's so was likely not published (it was about
Loglan, then).  I don't recall any details (and,
not being able to find even my copy of To Mock a
Mockingbird, let alone a serious book, would not
like to reconstruct any of them).  I think though
you are right: that {se} is C; but also the rest
of SE is very complex, even with defined
operators.
 
--- Ben Goertzel <ben@goertzel.org> wrote:
> Yah, you're right -- even with my primitive
> level of Lojban knowledge, I can see that SE
> cmavo could be removed without dramatic loss of
> usability (though as a fan of combinatory
> logic, I would hate to see them go .. se is
> what is called the C combinator in combinatory
> logic ;-)
> 
> ben
>   ----- 
>   > With Lojban, clearly there are no (or
> hardly any) mechanisms that
>   > could be removed and still leave the
> language usable.....  
> 
>   Not true.  You could drop all of the mekso
> cmavo, FA, and SE with
>   only very minor restrictions resulting.  In
> fact, (with my parser at
>   least), you could drop BAI, which is the
> largest cmavo group in the
>   language, as well.
>