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 Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 08:51:42PM +0000, And Rosta wrote:
> >In short, until someone actually DOES produce a demonstrably more
> >excellent (A), claims that it would be "easy" to do so are indeed
> >both hollow and insulting.
> 
> The claim that the design of Lojban could be substantially
> improved upon is so transparently true that it is completely
> unreasonable to find it hollow or insulting. 

Agreed, but that isn't what we were being insulted by *at all*.  It
was the claim (possibly not actually intended by anybody) that doing
something like the CLL for another language is easy.

> If you were thinking that I was claiming that it would be easy to
> write another CLL, then I agree that would have been hollow and
> insulting.

Erm, yes, that.  :)

-Robin

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