On Friday, February 24, 2012 05:20:48 gleki
wrote:
> This was posted earlier today in the Russian group of
lidepla language.
> The following is written allegedly by Stephen Rice
according to the author
> of the group but it's not confirmed by anyone else.
Anyway there will be no
> confirmation.
> What's your opinion about the following ?
>
> Briefly: I don't consider either Loglan or Lojban
viable auxlangs.
> They weren't designed for it. Their use of logical
predicate
> structure, while making simple sentences easy to
produce, also bloats
> the lexicon, because you technically need a new
predicate every time
> you change the underlying structure--something
regular languages use
> adpositions to do. Unfortunately, they weren't
designed for ease of
> derivation, either: Loglanists were originally
supposed to chain
> together individual predicate words, much as in Toki
Pona. The
> language was designed for that--it still is, despite
some retrofits.
Lojban does have adpositions (sumtcita). All members of BAI
are prepositions,
and tense markers can also be used as prepositions.
> From a linguistic standpoint, the relationships
differ sharply; as
> logical predicates, however, their structures are
identical. Loglan
> mitigated this with a system of case tags, which the
Lojbanists
> rejected. My Loglan 2.0 would be based on such a case
system.
What does he mean?
I assumed here he WAS talking about BAI, but I could
be wrong.