Re: Lojban is *NOT* broken! Stop saying that! (was Re: [lojban] Re: Vote for the Future Global Language)

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 10:52:40AM -0800, John E Clifford wrote:
> Well, the non-brivla stuff is, of course, also the non-predicate
> logic stuff, so we are beyond semantics into pragmatics

xorxes and I have done *some* work on "formal" definitions of cmavo;
see
http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=BPFK+Section%3A+gadri
, and I have occassionally fantasized about picking a
few predicate-logic-related words as axioms and defining the entire
rest of the language in terms of them.

Perhaps that's what Andrew was aiming for.

-Robin

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