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[lojban] Re: LA/LO/LE: Three Perspectives on Language



On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 19:42, Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 13:45, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Obviously non-human. Such "center embedded" phrases are notoriously
>> hard for humans to parse: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_embedding>
>
> Oddly, that link to center embedding leads (with one intermediate
> page) to this[1] page containing what appears to be a rather egregious
> misrepresentation of Lojban, Loglan, and the split between them.
>
> [1] http://specgram.com/CLI.2/02.mlp.html

Of course, since it's a satirical "journal", I'm not sure exactly how
seriously you can take it.

Chris Capel
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