On Sunday, October 26, 2014 1:51:26 PM UTC-4, selpa'i wrote:
Simply put, there aren't enough words, and the few words that exist do
not enable us to make nuanced descriptions of the world.
One the big advantages of natural language is connotation --they can use the same (short) word for different meanings. e.g. a `bus` for transporting people vs a `bus` for transporting data in computer hardware. There is a related concept between the two, but they are very different things. Lojban doesn't seem to work well for creating a single word for such disparate things. (maybe it could but people tend not to?)
It also kind of shame that there isn't a way to speak in abbreviated forms, e.g. if their were a two part word "vehicle-bus" and another "computer-bus", we could just use "bus" once we set forth the context as "vehicle" or "computer".