Re: [lojban] Quotation mark argument.

[Leo Molas <leos.molas@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Adam D. Lopresto <adam@pubcrawler.org> wrote:
> To summarize briefly, audio-visual isomorphism is not the idea that we
> can always translate between text and audio with no loss of detail,
> because there are many free variations in both forms, which are
> impossible to render in the other. Instead, to me at least, audio-visual
> isomorphism is this:
>
> 1) Lojban is fundamentally a sequence of *words* in the abstract. There
> is no meaning to a text that is not derived from those words.

The problem of this is that this is *not* an isomorphism, but an epi,
as I said. It's just a matter of words, since I do agree and like the
actual way lojban transforms from and into speech, but it's incorrect
to call it isomorphism.

> <snip>

mu'omi'e.leos.molas.



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