Subject: RE: [lojban] Dumb answers to good questions

From: Invent Yourself <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 16:11:47 -0400 (EDT)

On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote:

> At 07:23 PM 9/22/01 +0100, <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >Xod:
> > > On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, And Rosta wrote:
>
> It'd be a very bad thing if they couldn't be translated into Lojban, but
> >the grammar of UI is plenty powerful enough to translate them. However,
> >to my mind, the semantics of focus calls not for a discursive but for
> >the kind of logicosyntactic manipulations evident in the English.
>
> Why? Specifically, why must Lojban convey things by logicosyntactic
> manipulations merely because English does?

And why must Lojban express every nuance of English?

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