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RE: [lojban] A revised ce'u proposal involving si'o (fwd)
pc:
> nicholas@uci.edu writes:
> And if you wanted Lojban to be only
> about Sapir-Whorf and getting it speakable, and not about logical
> quibbling and rigour, then I am yet again forced to ask And's question:
> Why did you pick a logic-based conlang to start with? You could have
> dispensed with all the logic quibbling, and still gotten your Sapir-Whorf
> effects, if you'd worked with Laadan.)
>
> In fairness to Lojbab, he is stuck with what he inherited from Jim to a
> certain extent -- and that includes a mass of confusions. As for Laadan, it
> is clearly too inchoate to be much use as a conlang.
Not too inchoate by Lojbab's standards. For Lojbab, the more inchoate the
better -- the more inchoate the language is, the more there is for Usage
to Decide.
--And.