Re: Dao De Jing [was Re: Promoting Lojban]

[Lin Zhemin <ljm@marx.ljm.wownet.net>]

zo robin cusku di'e

> la lin. cusku di'e

.i .e'o mi cmene lindjy,min. ko

(Well, do you think it's more appreciable to use
".i .e'o ko te cmene lindjy,min mi" ?)

> Aesthetically I like Gia Fu Feng's best.  Technically, I like for Zheng Manqing's commentary, based on
> the Han commentators', which is available in a rather prosaic English translation (I forget who
> translated it - one of Zheng's taijiquan students).  The problem is that any translation is influenced
> by a particular school of Taoism (in the case of English translations, usually by Tang dynasty
> commentators, AFAIK).

BTW, it is recommended that you set the right margin to lesser than 76
characters, for the convenience of readers working in Un*x boxes.. :-)

The book I have is commented by Wangbi (a thinker) in Jin dynasty, in the
5th century. I don't know if there is some commentator in Han dynasty
has noted Daodejing. But I know that the version of Wangbi has some
misinteprets, according to the explanation of Wang Anshi (poem, prime
minister in Song dynasty, the 9th or 10th century). When I read the
book, I refer to two books, one of Wangbi and the one of recent experts
who adopted the explanation of Wang Anshi.

I have no idea how English version of Daodejing is like. I've read some
quotations in books like "the C++ programming language", but the
translation weirds.. :Q

> (1) Predicate logic and its offshoots are a lot more flexible than Aristotelian logic.  I would hope
> logicians have got to the point where they aren't just relexicalising Greek!

I have no idea about this, since I'm not logician... :-)
But in our textbook is there only Greek logic. Even fuzzy logic is for
some advanced people to read.

> (2) Lojban is more flexible than predicate logic.

It's expressive, admittably. But don't forget that we're of our own
cultures, not of the one of Logbanistan. :-)


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