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

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

From: Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 19:40:07 -0500

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Esperanto is X, Y, and Z. lojban is far from being [that] at the moment.

lojban is far from X, Y, AND Z.

lojban is far from X AND lojban is far from Y AND lojban is far from Z.

If that's not what you meant to communicate maybe you should try saying it in lojban next time ;)

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Ivo Doko <ivo.doko@gmail.com> wrote:

On 5 January 2011 23:05, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:

> As for the title/subject, I never said that lojban is *broken*, pardon me, I
> only said that it isn't finished,

You did, actually:

it's a fully defined, complete and functioning language, which

lojban is very far from being at the moment

"far from functioning" is very different from "incomplete".

You have misquoted me. My words were, as you quoted them correctly the first time:

"[Esperanto is] a fully defined, complete and functioning language, which
lojban is very far from being at the moment."

So what I *have* said about lojban, is that it's "far from being a fully defined, complete and functioning language", not just that it's "far from functioning".

I have to say that I'm disappointed and surprised at the same time at the irony of having my words so terribly misinterpreted and misunderstood by a lojban enthusiast.

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