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Re: [lojban] Lojban wall of complexity (beginner thoughts)
Le vendredi 27 juillet 2012 18:31:19 UTC+2, lojbab a écrit :
As one of the main founders of Lojban, I freely admit to not being a
linguist - never a course in the subject, though I've read a few books
now - but after starting on Lojban. Indeed, since you are bilingual in
English and French (and perhaps others), you are more of a linguist than
I am. (I have some rudimentary Russian, but not nearly as good as your
English, and I didn't even know that when Lojban started.)
I naively thought that all major contributors were linguists!
So, go ahead and invent words, and just be prepared for someone to ask
you to clarify, if they are unclear in meaning. Even the most skilled
among us will sometimes make poor words, but language is in nature
interactive and we learn from making such mistakes.
You and Pierre Arbat have greatly clarified the way to go. I just use whatever I like in lojban and my design will be evaluated through the use and feedback of other people.
This is something a bit new for a French native as we have a very strong tradition of normalization by an authority (the French Academy dates back to something like the 18th century if I remember well). As a recent example, a lot of technical words these last 50 years are born in English and the use of the English word have been officially banned and replaced by French substitutes (like "courriel" for "e-mail" because "mail" in French is "courrier"). Of course not everybody uses them, I guess that people with no technical background are more inclined to use French equivalent that people that see the English terms at work or in the course of their hobby.
Anyway, thanks for the clarifications! I go back to the study of the reference grammar...
lojbab
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Bob LeChevalier lojbab@lojban.org www.lojban.org
President and Founder, The Logical Language Group, Inc.
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