[lojban] Re: Comparison to Ilaksh?

[terrible and majestic <mantycore@gmail.com>]

I already did some (amateurish) comparison between Ithkuil/Ilaksh and
lojban and will post it here a little later, if it is appropriate. For
now, a very short summary: Ithkuil and Ilaksh are very similar, more
so than loglan and lojban. Essentially they are two different phonetic
and graphic realization of same grammar. So, for sake of this
comparison, I'll treat them as one language. Ithkuil and lojban are
very different in some respects, but very similar in others. It is
possible to map the sizable part of one's grammar to another's. Lojban
has better, more clear design, an Ithkuil has more rich grammatical
categories (yet lojban has more rich and systematic attitudinal
system). Ithkuil have very little structure on syntctic level and
above, especially compared to lojban; and it totally lacks any mekso-
analogue. Lojban has lesser structure in organization of its
vocabulary. Ithkuil is more difficult to learn and use, mostly because
of combination of (sometimes excess) complexity with irregularities in
design. Most importantly, in spite of Ithkuil and lojban having
comparable numbers of good ideas in their bases, lojban is a creation
of community, so it is much better tested and 'debugged'.

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