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Re: [lojban] Baby words: "more".



  I disagree strongly, Jean.

 All natural languages have strong grammatical constructions, some of them quite bizarre, and we learn them (at least as children) by modelling and feedback.  Now, might lojban be impossible to learn this way?  Maybe, but there's really no a priori way of telling.  At the very least, it doesn't suffer from the cognitive load of having to remember irregularities in verb or noun construction as natlangs do.  It's easy for an adult to pick up the grammar of lojban in just a few weeks. 

         --gejyspa



On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Jean Meyrand <escaaape@gmail.com> wrote:
Robin, I am admirative of the way you try to inculcate your baby lojbanic notions.

Nevertheless, I wonder it may be senseless to teach lojban in such a way, because it is basically the way we learn natlangs.   I sincerely doubt anybody can guess the way Lojban works on the sole basis of trials&errors, rather it seems to me that such an artifical logical language can only be taught in a prescriptive kind of professoral way.   At least, by reading manuals, and having a priori strong notions of grammar and formal logic...

Regards, Escape


2013/7/8 Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>

As in "Do you want more food?", or, for the baby to say "more food".

{jmina} is the closest I've seen, but it's a pain in the ass for
that sort of purpose; the places are wrong.

-Robin

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