[lojban] Re: Loglish: A Modest Proposal

["Ben Goertzel" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

> > In speech I can't think of a non-annoying way
> > to solve it... except by
> > outlawing/replacing
> > those few English words that overlap with
> > cmavo, e.g. replacing "go" with
> > "proceed"
> >
> > "Lo man cu proceed lo playground"
> >
> > or with "eng_go" (enggo?),
> >
> > "Lo man cu enggo lo playground"
> >
> > ;-p
>
> Yuck indeed

Yeah, the best strategy is just to rule out those few English words that
overlap with Lojban cmavo.

This is not such a terrible loss, really.

> > For instance, in my intended usage, you could
> > say
> >
> > "la Dr. Benjamin Goertzel cu enggo lo
> > playground.  It queh man cu kill lo
> > dog.  It cu eat lo cat.
> >
> > In this case, "It" is defined to refer to "Dr.
> > Benjamin Goertzel", not to
> > "man" generically.
>
> Well, this is a nice bit of editing, but is it
> one that AI can universally do, that is, identify
> what in the neighborhood falls appropriately
> under "man" (in the sense "male" of course)and
> what falls under female and so on.

My experience is that in practical text processing,
AI's can do this with a very
high accuracy (>98%) but not perfect accuracy.

> There are any
> number of "genders" as the need arises --
> including some that somehow cut across the
> "natural" ones, to separate Flash from Ming in
> the everpopular "Ming walked up to Flash.  He
> struck him."

Well, that particularly case is quite easy for
simple rule-based AI algorithms, but not every
case is so easy.

Loglish doesn't easily help with that case; like
Lojban it just encourages you to say stuff like

"La Ming cu approach la Flash.  La Ming cu strike la flash."

-- Ben




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