Re: [lojban] Re: [lojban-announcements] Essay on the future of Lojban, with a simple poll for the community.

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Friday 09 April 2010 14:13:26 John E Clifford wrote:
> Oops.  In theory iirc Lojban can require processing depths that no human
> language in fact has (though I am not sure that there is a theory that says
> they can't have it) and some parts of Lojban do require keeping in mind the
> details of the developing sentence structure which again exceed the need in
> natural languages (again only in fact perhaps).

The man the track the dog the detective the author wrote about walked followed 
belonged to was short. The man is an Andaman, the track is made of creosote, 
the dog is named Toby, and that's enough to figure out who the detective and 
the author are. I've also read that Dutch is provably not parsable by some 
class of grammar because it has constructions of the form abcd...ABCD, where 
the equivalent German construction is abcd...DCBA, and the capital letters 
are verbs.

Pierre
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