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Re: Funny loglan site
- Subject: Re: Funny loglan site
- From: And Rosta <a.rosta@uclan.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 15:35:34 GMT+0
> The TLI community
[...]
> are also prone to trying to phrase things in "logic-speak"
> with prenexes that are not accurate to the context - like they are
> translating the English into predicate logic notation for a first year
> logic course, and then translating the notation into TLI Loglan. This
> leads to overuse of universals, which seldom apply to the real world like
> they do in a logic-model.
I can't read Loglan so can't verify this, but, as I think I suggested
before, it seems generally commedable practise among less-skilled
users of the language. At least it makes logical errors (mismatches
between the logic of what one actually said and what one wanted to
say) easier to spot. In normal Lojban style such errors are harder to
spot, which doubtless aids communication but delays mastery of the
language.
The above remarks are made with no authority, mind you, for I must
confess that I myself haven't written a word of Lojban for slighly
over a year now, and only read Lojban postings up until the first
word I don't know, which means I give up pretty quickly.
co`o mi`e And