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Re: [lojban] In what ways specifically has lojban benefited from the field of linguistics that Esperanto, and other early conlangs did not?



At first glance, the answer to the begged prior question seems to be "No."   The only candidate that is immediately apparent is the need for a proper grammar to really specify a language, that 16 rules and a "do what you usually do" note (cf. Esperanto, but most other conlangs as well) is not enough.  The central role of grammars  comes from Linguistics, perhaps, but the grammars we actually use are primarily from Computer Science, hence ultimately Number Theory.  To be sure, Linguistics has come to draw its notions of grammars from this same source, but the grammars for Lojban make use of few of the Linguistic applications of these theories.  (Lojban, as "spoken formal logic"  -- which it certainly is not obviously -- would be a natural for a grammar of generations and transformations, but no such grammar has been developed -- or even proposed, so far as I can find).  Beyond that, Lojban seems to have little to do with Linguistics -- it has even rather systematically rejected standard terminology.


On Wednesday, June 4, 2014 3:49 AM, Gleki Arxokuna <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com> wrote:


In what ways specifically has lojban benefited from the field of linguistics that Esperanto, and other early conlangs did not?

http://www.reddit.com/r/lojban/comments/2771z6/in_what_ways_specifically_has_lojban_benefited/
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