[lojban] Re: "la" rule

["Mark E. Shoulson" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

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.
Then why are we bothering in the first place?  I thought there was a 
reason we wanted audiovisual isomorphism for Lojban.  If that isn't a 
requirement, then we can drop a lot of other confusing stuff from the 
grammar too.

Or just stick with English.  People can parse that too.

It's like I said, pick your disaster.  Is audio-visual isomorphism an 
important part of Lojban?  Important enough to keep around?  Is losing 
it worth keeping pauseless LA?  Apparently it is, to you.  If that's the 
general feeling, fine.  But do recognize what it is you're doing.

~mark


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