[lojban] Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: go'i / ri

["Chris Capel" <pdf23ds@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:40, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
> la djan. djica lo nu sutra lo zu'o bredi kei  tezu'e lo nu clira fa lo
> nu klama le la megan. draci .imu'ibo so'iroi lerci fa ra
>
> is possibly the most concise, but that leaves "ra" as potentially
> ambiguous ("rixici" removes the ambiguity but forces the listener to
> count)

You know I really don't think this is a problem in written Lojban,
because you can always go back and add "goi"s when you need to. And
hopefully in informal spoken lojban, just as in informal spoken
English, ambiguity like that would be par for the course. I rarely
bother to speak more precisely, and when I do, I'm usually thinking
hard enough about what I say that (hopefully) forethought or sumti
counting would be possible. I'd like to think the problem will be
solved when we all get neural implants that can take care of
backcounting since our brains are naturally so bad at it.

I just read a Peter Watts novel[1] so I'm all hyped up on neural implants.

Chris Capel

[1] http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
-- 
"What is it like to be a bat? What is it like to bat a bee? What is it
like to be a bee being batted? What is it like to be a batted bee?"
-- The Mind's I (Hofstadter, Dennet)


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