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[lojban] Re: eastern languages
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- Subject: [lojban] Re: eastern languages
- From: "Chris Capel" <pdf23ds@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:18:41 -0500
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On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 20:00, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 06:08:47PM -0500, Chris Capel wrote:
>> I mean, Japan's othography system(s) scares me to death, but maybe
>> a cumbersome orthography doesn't bug a logically-minded person as
>> much as a cumbersome grammar does.
>
> It sure as hell bugs *me*, and I'm pretty logically minded.
Well, I mean native speakers. If you were brought up bilingually with
Japanese and English equally emphasized, which would you think is more
beautiful?
> The only nice thing about Japanese is the regular verb conjugation
> and the lack of noun conjugation (I can't remember what it's called
> with nouns).
Spanish tends to be much more regular, but at the cost of having a
bunch more verb forms. Still not as nice as Lojban.
Chris Capel
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