Re: [lojban] Should we have another mailing list for abstruse discussions?

[John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com>]

I didn't mean to be rude, but it is a fair point, nonetheless and I am genuinely 
interested.  I am glad you find other joys in in it than clarity of argument and 
syntactic form.  I hope that the investigation into the minutiae will turn up 
devices that you can use to even more pleasing effects.  And do follow along, 
you will learn quite a bit (not necessarily things you want to know, to be 
sure).  Meanwhile, you can have your vegetables (if that is not too rude) and I 
my rabbit with uninterfering pleasure.



----- Original Message ----
From: Remo Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com>
To: lojban@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tue, September 20, 2011 4:29:49 PM
Subject: Re: [lojban] Should we have another mailing list for abstruse 
discussions?

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:09 PM, John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Well, in keeping with the saying, what is the attraction of Lojban to you?

Personally I find this an extremely rude response.

The reasons I like Lojban are the more diverse and the fact that it
can attract different people is a testimony of its greateness.

You may think it's a nice abstract toy to dissect, I like the sound
and the shape of the sentences. I like tanru and I like zo'e and I
like how sentences come out as different from any other language that
I know.

I'm not interested in the hidden corner of the grammar, unless they
bring something to the understanding of the language itself. If the
only way to understand what you are talking about is to come up at
your level of knowledge, probably I won't need your explanation.

As Seneca said:

"in eodem prato bos herbam quaerit, canis leporem, ciconia lacertam"

remod

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