Ivo Doko wrote:
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."
Esperanto is NOT fully defined. It's completeness is arbitrary. It is a functioning language.
Lojban is NOT fully defined, but is more so than Esperanto. It's completeness is arbitrary, but its vocabulary is less completely defined than Esperanto. It is a functioning language.
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".
But it is functioning.The problem is there is a smaller cadre of people sufficiently skilled in Lojban who can use it fully functioning, and most of the people who post on the lists are NOT those. By contrast, Esperanto discussions are dominated by those who ARE highly skilled.
That is a teaching problem that takes time, and a limitation of the community until then. It is not a language problem. And moreover it is a language problem that is self-remedying.
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