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

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

  I do.

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 10:38 AM, John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Well, that sounds testable. Does anyone have access to a 10-year-old to see
> if we can match his/her comnversation for, say, a month?
>
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> From: Oleksii Melnyk <lamelnyk@gmail.com>
> To: lojban@googlegroups.com
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> Subject: Re: Lojban is *NOT* broken! Stop saying that! (was Re: [lojban] Re:
> Vote for the Future Global Language)
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> 2011/1/8 John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com>
>>
>> I suppose that what is meant is the right words, not just the number.  The
>> autogenerated ones would not be intelligible Lojban, even if they were
>> well-formed.
>
> The first allocation method still works -- as the vocabulary is being
> constantly filled with the meanings, that appears in the lojbanist's sight.
> Yes, no one will know all the words - just like in most of natlangs.
>
>
>>
>> The claim is basically, that we aren't "finished" because we haven't
>> talked enough about enough things, certainly that there are things talked
>> about in other languages which have never been mentioned in Lojban and yet
>> are in the realm of Lojbanists' experiences (this to keep Piranha finished
>> even though no one has talked about nuclear physics -- or plain physics --
>> in it).
>
> To make that a good criteria we need to define the "standard native
> speaker", and it should be slightly educated 10 years old child - after that
> they becomes too different. Does lojban's vocabulary covers such a needs?
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