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

On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 05:21:27PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> (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.
> 

+1 to Robin's comment.

-Alan
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te djuno lo do sevzi

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