Re: Lojban a natural language?

[jorge@phyast.pitt.edu]

And:
> The voluble contributors to the list are only a small minority of
> the community at large, no?

Depends what you mean by the community. If you mean subscribers of
Ju'i, then I suppose the list may be a minority. If you mean those who
ever use the language, I would bet we are the overwhelming majority.

> > > even if you would not consent to be considered a rorci.
> > I would consent to being a component of loi rorci
> Well, there are some loi rorci be Lojban such that Julius Caesar
> or my left sock is a component of them. That's not saying much.

Could you elaborate on that? I would think that {ro lu'a loi rorci
be la lojban cu rorci la lojban}. Why would you call them
{loi rorci} if not?

> What you want to say is that you are a member of a rorci *group*,
> not a component of a rorci *mass*.

What is the difference?

Jorge