tecu'u la lojba

[dex@SYSLINK.MCS.COM]

 > From: Goran Topic <amadan@ibm.net>

 > Keeping that in mind, can lojban be used for deducing the
 > universals of natural human languages?

 Offering a new vantage point for comparison can't be bad. 
 There were many things we never knew about Earth until we
 looked at the Moon and the planets; and the more we look
 the more we learn. 

 > Despite the fact that stringing rafsi feels very natural to me,
 > would such a deduction be scientifically solid, acceptable?
 > To make an acceptable scientific argument, I think it would
 > be necessary to show the parallelism between the compounding
 > mechanisms in lojban and natural languages. If you can do that,
 > though, why need lojban?
 > Convince me I'm wrong and I'll be very happy. I find it an 
 > interesting subject.

 I'm not an expert on Lojban, but I've been accused of thinking. 

  :=) 

 Are you saying that for things to be similar,
 they must therefore be identical?