[lojban] Re: "la" rule

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

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 05:33:39PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell 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'm clearly stressing over this too much.  I'm bowing out now; we
can fight about this at jbonunsla.  :-)

-Robin

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