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

[Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>]

Christopher,

Lojban has no goal of being widely used. It can be logical and
consistent while also being mindbendingly unusable. That is its past,
current, and continuing plan.

-Matt

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Christopher Doty <suomichris@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 17:21, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> This is an interesting issue, I think, because I see the idea of
> "mind-bending stuff," while certainly very cool, to be diametrically opposed
> to any hope of having Lojban widely adopted as an
> international/auxiliary/talking-to-computers/whatever language--there are
> plenty of things that natural languages do which are plenty mind-bending to
> speakers of English, but they don't violate general principles of what
> languages do and what they don't do, while Lojban does in any number of
> respects.
> If Lojban wants to be mind-bending, awesome. If it wants to be a language
> which is logical and consistent, and thus primed to make in-roads in being
> widely used, also awesome.  But it can't do both of those things.
>
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