Re: [lojban] Fwd: AUXLANG Digest - 11 Nov 2001 to 12 Nov 2001 (#2001-260)

[And Rosta <arosta@uclan.ac.uk>]

>>> "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org> 11/13/01 11:22pm 
#For everyone's pleasure, from Auxlang list, here are 6 sentences to provide 
#Lojban for.  Since the topic is concision in language, I would be 
#interested not only in the traditional rendering (which for 1) might be "le 
#barda zdani pu culno loi cukta" but some concise form that conveys the 
#meaning accurately but may not mimic the English grammar ("pu cukta #culno ke barda zdani".

Most of the translations are SAE relexes. It makes little sense to compare them with Lojban. You could have a competition for the concisest SAE
relex, or for which language can express a predetermined body of information most concisely, but the actual exercise you quoted is rather
pointless.

#Also if someone can make a list of the troublesome sentences that And 
#and others have plagued us with for semantics issues, I may pass them 
#along to Auxlang to see what others do with them.  (Ceqli in particular 
#purports to be a loglang but Rex May almost certainly has considered 
#these kinds of issues even less than JCB did.)

If those Auxlangers were interested in my troublesome sentences they'd
probably be here on this list. If you give them a tricky sentence, they'll just
translate it into SAE and thence into their pet auxlang, and nobody will learn anything.

--And.