[lojban] Re: "la" rule

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

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 08:29:32PM -0500, Bob LeChevalier wrote:
> The la rule isn't required with standard (spaces included)
> orthography, and without a speaking community.  When we have a
> skilled speaking community, we can find out whether la in names in
> the spoken language causes problems for humans - after all, humans
> can parse English and other human languages successfully, and they
> aren't audiovisually isomorphic.

So it's OK to leave a rule that people will often violate because
people can deal with that sort of thing?

That's just...  It's like you *want* to kill Lojban.

I want a language that will *actually* have audio-visual
isomorphism.  In practice.  With real people.

You, if the above is to be believed, don't actually care about that.

-Robin

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