Saying that
it is very far from being complete and functioning is ridiculous,
and pretty insulting to a lot of people's hard work.
Gee, sorry. :-/
Also, I've realised I made a typo: I meant to say that Esperanto is "far from being completely regular and logical
", not that it's "far from being completely *ir*regular and logical", sorry if that confused anybody.
As for the title/subject, I never said that lojban is *broken*, pardon me, I only said that it isn't finished, which is not something I made up - I constantly read people both newbies and oldies ranting on about how there's so much work yet to be done on lojban and how every now and then someone will take upon him-/herself to finish whatever is left unfinished and it will look like he/she will accomplish it but then he/she gives up and yadda yadda. To me that seems like lojban is, to put it as simple as possible, not finished. Esperanto, on the other hand, is. Were you trying to say that Esperanto isn't finished either? It may not be as "fully defined" as lojban is, but that doesn't really say much. Esperanto never aimed to be what lojban aims to be - a completely logical and fully unambiguously defined language. Instead, Esperanto aimed to be a language which is as unambiguous and as regular as it can be while still operating like a naturally-evolved language as much as possible. In order for a language to be like that, it doesn't have to be as fully defined as lojban does in order to be finished, which is the reason why Esperanto is a finished language while lojban is not. Even though lojban is better defined than Esperanto, it's not as fully defined as it should be in order for it to be finished, because the current level of its well-definiteness is not good enough for what lojban aims to be.
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