[lojban] The efficacy of Lojban's grammar.

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

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 03:15:11AM +0100, And Rosta wrote:
> Probably the most fundamentally unnatural and perhaps even
> 'uncognizable' part of Lojban is the formal grammar. The
> structures of the formal grammar are nothing like those found in
> natural languages. And I rather doubt whether anybody does or can
> internalize the formal grammar as part of learning and using
> Lojban; 

When I'm in practice, my statements pass the formal parser (mine,
not the official on) on the order of 95 times out of a hundred.  I'd
wager real money on that.

Certainly 8 or 9 out of 10 is true for all the serious speakers on
IRC.

I'm really not sure what you're on about here.

-Robin

-- 
They say:  "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons."
And I'm  thinking:  "Does it even occur to you to try for something
other  than  the default  outcome?"  See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz
http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group.
To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en.