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

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

Of course, my ten year old says plenty of things that there are no
lojban words for, or that would require circumlocutions.  Plenty of
them even today.  Like "chulent", or "melave malka"  or "brisket" I
don't really want to zoi quote every other word he says.  So maybe not
the best 10yo to use....

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Michael Turniansky
<mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
>  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?
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Oleksii Melnyk <lamelnyk@gmail.com>
>> To: lojban@googlegroups.com
>> Sent: Sat, January 8, 2011 2:14:01 AM
>> Subject: Re: Lojban is *NOT* broken! Stop saying that! (was Re: [lojban] Re:
>> Vote for the Future Global Language)
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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