From pycyn@aol.com Sat Sep 15 11:58:40 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 15 Sep 2001 18:58:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 86628 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2001 17:01:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 15 Sep 2001 17:01:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r06.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.102) by mta1 with SMTP; 15 Sep 2001 17:01:11 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r06.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.7.) id r.110.5604f3a (4596) for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:01:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <110.5604f3a.28d4e352@aol.com> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:01:06 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] A revised ce'u proposal involving si'o (fwd) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_110.5604f3a.28d4e352_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10535 From: pycyn@aol.com --part1_110.5604f3a.28d4e352_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/14/2001 8:11:58 PM Central Daylight Time, a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com writes: > As for Laadan, it > > is clearly too inchoate to be much use as a conlang. > > Not too inchoate by Lojbab's standards. For Lojbab, the more inchoate the > better -- the more inchoate the language is, the more there is for Usage > to Decide. > Oh, even Lojbab (the one of your rhetoric even) would insist on a grammar and a phonology, neither of which doth Laadan possess in record. --part1_110.5604f3a.28d4e352_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/14/2001 8:11:58 PM Central Daylight Time, a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com writes:


As for Laadan, it
> is clearly too inchoate to be much use as a conlang.  

Not too inchoate by Lojbab's standards. For Lojbab, the more inchoate the
better -- the more inchoate the language is, the more there is for Usage
to Decide.


Oh, even Lojbab (the one of your rhetoric even) would insist on a grammar and a phonology, neither of which doth Laadan possess in record. --part1_110.5604f3a.28d4e352_boundary--