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



2008/9/14 Brett Williams <mungojelly@gmail.com>:
> 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.

What's wrong with using fu'ivla for "carburetor" for example? Many of world's
language (for example, Japanese) is full of loan words for modern stuffs.

-- 
Seo Sanghyeon


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