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Re: [lojban] RE: mine, thine, hisn, hern, itsn ourn, yourn and theirn (wassi'o)


la nitcion cusku di'e


Let me come clean; I think (and have always thought) Sapir-Whorf bogus (as
most linguists do, for ideological reasons);


I completely agree, even though I'm not a linguist.


Sapir-Whorf is not what
attracted me to Lojban; and when I do get epiphanies in my Lojban use and
interaction (which has and does happen), they come from clarifying things
on the logical side of the language, not the non-logical side.


In my case it's not so much the logic in itself, but the
language-logic, when two things that seemed unrelated suddenly
come together in a general rule for example.


Indeed, I
still believe there is nothing on the non-logical side of Lojban (and I
emphatically include tanru and attitudinals here) which is particularly
unique or special to Lojban.


Probably true. I don't have much to say for tanru, but there's a lot
in attitudinals that is not clear to me yet. The big attitudinal
debate of some months ago was helpful but still to be concluded.


This, I think, underlies many of my current disagreements with people (and
particularly xod); so xorxes, I think you can chalk up one more axis. :-)


I don't think you will find me opposing you on the wanting to be
logical axis. In that respect, in your usage you are rather more
lax than I am, I think.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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