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[lojban] Re: "la" rule
On 11/13/06, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
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.
Is this really about audio-visual isomorphism? I mean, if the "la"
restriction weren't there, wouldn't *both* written and spoken Lojban
be technically ambiguous? (Even though the intent would be clearer in
the written form, given spaces?) Then it would be a matter of
unambiguous parsing. But since both written and spoken would be
ambiguous in the same way, we'd still have isomorphism.
Chris Capel
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