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

From: "And Rosta" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 23:38:29 +0100

xod:
> 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?

also na'i. Focus looms large in many (most? all?) languages of the world,
often much larger than it does in English. Nick and Ivan are better
people than me to explain all this.

--And.