[lojban] Re: How many fluent speakrs of Lojban are there?

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:44:38PM -0700, joel@mentics.com wrote:
> > Define "fluent".  There are perhaps a few dozen people who can
> > have a comfortable conversation in Lojban.  None of them are as
> > fluent in Lojban as they are in their native languages, but I
> > don't think that's even possible-- no one knows the Lojban words
> > for "carburetor" or "lemon merengue pie", for instance, because
> > there aren't any.
> 
> But could someone who was sufficiently versed in lojban, create a
> word on the fly for those things? 

Sure, but how would you know you had been understood?  For *sure*,
I mean?

> If I'm discussing desserts with a friend and I say,
> lemon-whipped-egg-round-thing, would it likely be understood?

Oh, you mean lemon cheesecake, yeah?

-_-

-Robin

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