xod wrote:
One advantage of philosophers using Lojban would be that it's lujvo-building capabilites would mean that they wouldn't keep stretching perfectly ordinary words into strange meanings ;-)la_okus wrote:la .go,ets. cusku di'eHi, Transhumanism is a concept which is a bit too alien to me. (I generally have difficulties with teleology and the dependenceon purposes.) There may be simpler reasons for interest inLojban.[ . . . ] About 10000 people play with Klingon, and that language reallyLimits what you can express. Promote lojban as a toy. Playingisa good reason - because even if you don't can substantiatethatIt is a goot reasen you still have fun with playing. GoetzWould you consider yourself a hedonist (one whose purpose is pleasure)? If so, wouldn't you consider that teleology? I'm not interested in using philosophy to make lojban more attractive, but possibly the other way around. At any rate, good ideas.If Lojban can improve communication, and thought, then it should certainly hold promise for philosophy. Also, learning Lojban for the Sapir-Whorf benefits is indeed an extropian project. I'm not sure that it will really work until there's at least one family that speaks it at home. We don't seem to be able to get enough speech time for a dramatic mental effect; a weekend is not enough immersion.
robin.tr, who has just been explaining that when Rousseau says "subject" and "citizen", he means the same person wearing different hats, and that a "city" can actually be smaller than a "town", and that a "prince" is not the guy on the white horse who rescues the princess, and ...
-- "Caesar non supra grammaticos." - Suetonius Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin