[lojban] Re: "la" rule

[Bob LeChevalier <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> 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).

I contend that Lojbanists reviewing WIL weren't necessarily thinking 
about checking for the "la" rule.  This is a matter of 
editing/proofreading; some errors simply just don't bother us, if we 
aren't trained to look for them.

lojbab



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