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[lojban] Re: Opinions on "mi viska le sa .i mi cusku zo .djan."



On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 02:54:04PM -0700, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> --- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 02:28:03PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> > > But the main advantage is the reduction in useless proliferation of
> > > selma'o. 
> > 
> > Not useless; it's already been shown that the proliferation allows
> > eliding of a syllable in a very, very common case, which seems important
> > to me.
> 
> To me it is better if you just have to learn one pattern
[...]

But isn't that kinda not the lojban way?

Lojban takes the approach that it's better to learn more if it gives
you more power.  In this case, you spend a little to learn a little
more up front, and in return get to save syllables in the common
cases later.

Let's leave "ease of learning" goal for the billion wanna-be
interlangs out there, no?

-- 
Jordan DeLong
fracture@allusion.net

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