Re: [lojban] beyond good and evil

[Cyril Slobin <cyril@slobin.pp.ru>]

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:

> It's another bad habit of mine that I think of the relationship itself instead of the x1
> when I use lo (e.g. I think of "speed" as {lo sutra} when really {lo sutra} is "the fast
> one" or {lo melbi} as being "beauty" instead of "the beautiful one", etc...).

Everyone does. This is the most common error among Lojban learners,
and I believe this is the most important (or, at least, the most
reproducible) Whorfian effect discovered so far. And, looking back, we
can find essentially the same case in early Esperanto history. I have
even wrote a micro-essay on this topic. Unfortunately, it is in
Russian. I should translate it to English (or Esperanto, or Lojban),
meanwhile the Russian text is here:

http://www.e-novosti.info/forumo/viewtopic.php?t=5989

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<cyril@slobin.pp.ru> `it means just what I choose it to mean'

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