Re: [lojban] Re: [lojban-announcements] Essay on the future of Lojban, with a simple poll for the community.

[John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com>]

Alas, Loglan/Lojban is still hopelessly SAE and so useless as far as SWH is concerned. I thought that goal had died eons ago in favor of being sorta logical (whatever that may mean) and being uniquely parsible for the machines, our masters.




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From: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
To: lojban@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thu, April 8, 2010 7:21:27 PM
Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: [lojban-announcements] Essay on the future of  Lojban, with a simple poll for the community.

(the rest of what you said did not seem to need a reply from me)

On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 12:02:35PM -0600, Sean Patrick Santos wrote:
> Third, your goal number three seems to me to be badly phrased. I
> don't think it's a virtue for lojban to be unlike other languages.
> Actually, that's a bad thing because that makes it harder to use.
> What I think you meant is that lojban should not be too closely
> intertwined with any single language or language family, to the
> extent that it becomes more distant from other widely-spoken
> languages (or more succinctly, lojban should avoid a heavy
> cultural bias).

Acutally, no, I meant exactly what I said: Lojban was formed to test
the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and while that's largely irrelevant to
me, it *is* important to me, and many other people, that Lojban is
not like any natural languages in a lot of respects.  Makes it all
mind-stretching and stuff.

-Robin

-- 
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And I'm  thinking:  "Does it even occur to you to try for something
other  than  the default  outcome?"  See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz
http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/

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