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Re: [lojban] Response ro Robin's "Essay on the future of Lojban"

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:49, Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org> wrote:
And Rosta wrote:
A language is a system of rules mapping between sounds and meanings.

A language is first and foremost a means of communication (and need not use sound BTW)

No, it is not.  Damn near every living thing on this planet communicates through some means.

Language is a squishy issue to define, but the one And uses is by far the most common: an (arbitrary) system of mapping between a meaning and a sign (in most cases a sound, but also to sign). 

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