[lojban] Feasability of native speakers

["la vinsent." <pva003@gmail.com>]

coi rodo,

     If, one day, a lojban speaker decides that his child's first
language will be lojban, would the child even be able to learn it
properly?  Adults can learn lojban because they were taught the
concepts within it that are not present in natural languages.  A child
on the other hand learns language in a different way.  Based on
listening to other speakers, the child can decipher the grammar,
vocabulary, phonology, etc of a language.  However, this is
probably(I'm not sure, though) because human languages all share
common traits that are hardwired into our language centers.  What
these hardwired linguistic features are, if they exist, is unknown.
Even though we don't know what these traits are, I reckon that lojban
probably breaks a few linguistic mental rules and thus cannot be
acquired by individual without having learned a naturalistic
language(this can include conlangs such as Esperanto) first.  I doubt
that it could be the first language of anyone, but I, of course, could
be mistaken. These are just my thoughts.

co'o

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