On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Robin Lee PowellAgreed!
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
It's quite easy actually to speak properly parsing Lojban. Most of
the time it's entirely habitual, not so much using your understanding
of the grammar directly, but rather pattern-recognizing a wide variety
of familiar conventional forms. It's only rarely that you produce or
encounter a sentence shape that dips into the complexities of the
grammar to find something new.
For instance I'm reminded of my recent joy at the phrase "lo melbi ko
li'i cerni" (have a beautiful morning, or literally, be the
experiencer of a beautiful experience of a morning). Joy because of
the *rareness* of that, of being hit by something in Lojban which I
still had to think twice in order to parse!
But of course if I hear now "xu lo xlali do li'i zgike" (are you not
enjoying the music, or literally, are you the experiencer of a bad
experience of music) or "lo milxe ko'a ti'e li'i lenku" (ko'a said
it's only a little cold, or literally, ko'a is, I hear, the
experiencer of a mild experience of cold), it doesn't make me feel
quite the same way again. The fresh joy is spent-- I've added that
form to my repertoire as one that I can hear and use without effort.
mi'e la stela selckiku
mu'o
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