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

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 10:32:38AM -0700, Christopher Doty wrote:
> 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.

I totally disagree; it is exactly the logical and consistent parts
that are the most mind-bending.  That's not how human languages
normally work.

-Robin

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