Re: [lojban] Lojban: it's not for babies.

[Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com>]

Complete segway here:

Many if not all twins eventually develop a language which only they know, so that they can converse with each other at any time and be assured privacy.

What are your hopes/expectations regarding the two using Lojban for that purpose?

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 4:01 AM, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:

As of this week, sometimes.

Up until then, not really, no; they'd simply elide one letter or the
other; {dirba} -> "DIH-ba", "fart" -> "faht", "aunt" -> "aht".

There are a lot more English words where that works without
confusion, and a *LOT* more English words that simply don't have any
significant consonant clusters.  They've been saying "banana" (or at
least "nana") for ages, for example.

This was my point: given the choice between a language with lots of
words they can see, and one with lots they can't, they pick the
former.

-Robin

That sounds like completely logical reasoning to me. Of course the English over Lojban trend will probably change- at least when they are talking to you- as they become more vocally capable.

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(Come to the Dot Side! Luke, I am your father. :D )

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