[lojban] Re: "la" rule

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

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 08:11:49PM -0500, Bob LeChevalier wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >2.  When you've written such a tool, let me know.  Right now, you
> >have no evidence that this is a human learnable rule; you're just
> >having a pipe dream.
> 
> Of course it is a human-learnable rule.  You underestimate human
> capabilities.
> 
> The issue seems to be whether it is a rule that humans will learn
> to follow *without error*, 

Not without error all the time, but without error more than, say,
50% of the time they Lojbanize names with those sounds in them.
Again, we have no evidence that that goal is acheivable, because we
certainly haven't acheived it so far (3 Lojbanists reviewing WIL?
puts us at an *upper bound* of a 33% chance of getting it right).

While I was typing this mail, someone Lojbanized {malak} on #lojban,
by the way.

The rule obnoxious, it gains us nothing whatever that *I* care about
(oh no, a glottal stop!  .ii sai je'u nai), and it appears to be
very hard to follow.

Again, I don't think either of us are saying anything new at this
point.

-Robin

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