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

[Timo Paulssen <timonator@perpetuum-immobile.de>]

And Rosta wrote:
> A language is a system of rules mapping between sounds and meanings.
> By that sensible definition, Lojban is nowhere near "pretty close to
> good enough". The so-called 'grammar' doesn't deserve to be called a
> grammar, since all it does is give meaningless structures to
> phonological strings. CLL does make a start on the definition of the
> rules of Lojban, but only a start. Some users of Lojban don't realize
> how meaningless or semantically indeterminate their utterances are.
> Some, I presume, don't care. Others are frustrated. And perhaps in a
> small Lojban-speaking enclave of Argentina, they've created their own
> much more complete dialect.

I'm neither in the "don't care" nor in the "is frustrated" camp. Please
explain what you mean by "meaningless or semantically indeterminate"?

mu'o mi tolmencre

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