Re: [lojban] Should I quit learning Lojban?

[Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>]

On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 10:03:52 John E Clifford wrote:
> The historical roots of logical symbolism in Western culture and languages
> is too long to get into here (see Bochenski for some nice discussion) but
> the essential "Europeanness" (not actually, but that idea get fixed with
> "SAE") goes far deeper.  Whether speakers of European languages would have
> come up with Lojban without formal logic intervening is hard to judge; the
> point is, the Hopi wouldn't have, even with formal logic.

Looking at the list of conlangs, it seems that most are invented by speakers 
of European languages, but many of the languages are hardly SAE. I don't know 
much about Hopi, but it may simply not be a Hopi thing to do to invent 
languages. Lojban is definitely not SAE, for reasons I've listed before. In 
particular, the tense system is completely unlike that of the SAE languages.

Pierre
-- 
.i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do
.ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga
.icu'u la ma'atman.

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