From dex@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx Mon Aug 2 08:31:34 1999 X-Digest-Num: 203 Message-ID: <44114.203.1096.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Mon, 02 Aug 99 08:31:34 From: dex@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx Subject: tecu'u la lojba > From: Goran Topic > Keeping that in mind, can lojban be used for deducing the > universals of natural human languages? Offering a new vantage point for comparison can't be bad. There were many things we never knew about Earth until we looked at the Moon and the planets; and the more we look the more we learn. > Despite the fact that stringing rafsi feels very natural to me, > would such a deduction be scientifically solid, acceptable? > To make an acceptable scientific argument, I think it would > be necessary to show the parallelism between the compounding > mechanisms in lojban and natural languages. If you can do that, > though, why need lojban? > Convince me I'm wrong and I'll be very happy. I find it an > interesting subject. I'm not an expert on Lojban, but I've been accused of thinking. :=) Are you saying that for things to be similar, they must therefore be identical?