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

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

xod wrote:

> Can you give me an example of a statement which can be made in some other
> language (English, I hope) but not in Lojban, because Lojban is based in
> predicate logic, but English isn't?

Ambiguous English sentences can't be rendered into Lojban with the
ambiguity intact: see the beginning of Chapter 16.

-- 
John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)