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

[Jed <jednewaccount@yahoo.com>]

Shoot, I must not have been paying attention. I didn't realize anyone
thought zo'e meant anything different.

On Sep 20, 4:48 pm, Jonathan Jones <eyeo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 3:40 PM, John E Clifford <kali9pu...@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
> > Good!  Then you realize the importance of having the meaning of all
> > expressions of Lojban as clearly laid out in formal terms as possible, so
> > that computers (as of now at least, can understand).  So you must recognize
> > that the problems with {zo'e} are important, since that word preserves the
> > place structure intact, rather than flittering away into mush when it is not
> > used completely.
>
> Seeing as I intentionally haven't paid attention, at all, to that thread, I
> don't even know what "problems" {zo'e} has. So, I'm going to say, no, I
> don't re3cognixe that they are important. What I do recognize is that /I/,
> personally, don't care. I'm not a linguist. To me {zo'e} means, basically,
> "context-determined". That is, whatever it is within the context of the
> jufra, or possibly the discussion, that would sensibly fit in the place
> {zo'e} is being used (explicitly or implicitly), is what what {zo'e} means
> in that place. I would not be surprised if a computer of today could not
> understand that, but I do not think it is because {zo'e} is ill-defined, I
> think it is because computers don't understand context, or even the concept
> thereof.
>
> > I agree about Klingon, but I think tp is cute (subjective, as you say).
> > And, of course, I like your definition of {lo broda}.
>
> It's not /my/ definition. It's /the/ definition.
>
>
>
>
>
> > ------------------------------
> > *From:* Jonathan Jones <eyeo...@gmail.com>
> > *To:* lojban@googlegroups.com
> > *Sent:* Tue, September 20, 2011 4:30:17 PM
>
> > *Subject:* Re: [lojban] Should we have another mailing list for abstruse
> > discussions?
>
> > My attraction to Lojban is the unambiguous-ness of it's pronunciation, that
> > it is possible to be as specific or as clear as you want, and the place
> > structure system it has due to being based on predicate logic. Oh yes, and
> > that stated goal of being able to talk to computers and have them /actually
> > understand you/.
>
> > I don't take up Klingon because I'm not a Trekkie. While I do like the Star
> > Trek franchise, I'm not enough of a fan to devote time to learn a language
> > spoken by a fictitious race of war-mongers. /IF/ I were going to learn the
> > language of a star Trek species, I'd learn Vulcan. The only Klingon I ever
> > liked was Torres on Voyager, and she was milato.
>
> > I don't take up toki pona because it's ugly. I realize that's a subjective
> > argument, but meh. I'm allowed.
>
> > {lo broda} means "one or more things which actually fit into the x1 slot of
> > the predicate {broda}".
>
> > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 3:09 PM, John E Clifford <kali9pu...@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
> >> Well, in keeping with the saying, what is the attraction of Lojban to
> >> you?  Why not take up Klingon, which has a definite culture and definitive
> >> answers to your haja questions (haja form the pluperfect subjunctive?, a
> >> question liable to get more muddy than xorlo in Lojban)?  Or toki pona, that
> >> takes about a day to learn enough to carry on conversations on a range of
> >> things and contribute to the list? And, while most of your contributions
> >> have been about haja questions or general learning aids (the best app for
> >> your smartphone, say), you have taken part in earlier rounds of the eternal
> >> xorlo issue so, are not completely uninterested nor ignorant.  So, what do
> >> you think {lo broda} means?
>
> >> ------------------------------
> >> *From:* Jonathan Jones <eyeo...@gmail.com>
> >> *To:* lojban@googlegroups.com
> >> *Sent:* Tue, September 20, 2011 2:58:45 PM
> >> *Subject:* Re: [lojban] Should we have another mailing list for abstruse
> >> discussions?
>
> >> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:04 AM, John E. Clifford <kali9pu...@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
> >>> Well, as the old saying (I've been saying it for thirty some years) goes,
> >>> "If you want to have a logical language, you have to put up with a little
> >>> logic".  In the present case, since it concerns {zo'e}, the most common
> >>> unwritten word in Lojban, and thus {lo}, the most common written word
> >>> (possibly excluding {I} and { cu}), it would seem to be worthy of general
> >>> attention.  The demands of the discussion are not great (yes, Montague's
> >>> course was graduate level, but Partee's was just Senior level and we don't
> >>> need the whole pile here).  So gird up and learn a little about possible
> >>> worlds and mappings and intensionality.  Jboske would be a nice site, but,as
> >>> noted, no one goes there and there is no handy connection to it from the
> >>> general site.
>
> >>> Sent from my iPad
>
> >> I don't even know what the TITLE means. Oh, I know I could probably look
> >> it up and find out, sure. But, here's the thing- I don't care. I am not a
> >> linguist or logician. I have no interest whatsoever IN understanding.
> >> Figuring out how the language works isn't my job. That job belongs to the
> >> linguists and logicians. They figure out how a word works, then they tell
> >> us, in layman's terms, once they've figured it out. The whole zo'e thing
> >> going on is exactly that- something they are figuring out.
>
> >> I've got enough stuff on my "to learn" plate being in college without
> >> putting the learning of an entirely new discipline on there too- especially
> >> one that I'm not interested in anyway. If I don't /need/ to learn it, and I
> >> don't /want/ to learn it, I'm not going to learn it. Simple as that. Get
> >> back to me when you figure out what zo'e means.
>
> >>> On Sep 20, 2011, at 5:40, rdent...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> >>> On , Arnt Richard Johansen <a...@nvg.org> wrote:
> >>> > There is jbo...@yahoogroups.com, but that one hasn't been posted to
> >>> since 2007.
>
> >>> Great! Let's ask those that want to conduct such in-depth discussions to
> >>> move there!
>
> >>> remod
>
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> >> mu'o mi'e .aionys.
>
> >> .i.e'ucai ko cmima lo pilno be denpa bu .i doi.luk. mi patfu do zo'o
> >> (Come to the Dot Side! Luke, I am your father. :D )
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> > .i.e'ucai ko cmima lo pilno be denpa bu .i doi.luk. mi patfu do zo'o
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