From araizen@newmail.net Tue Sep 25 15:41:04 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: araizen@newmail.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 25 Sep 2001 22:41:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 25290 invoked from network); 25 Sep 2001 22:33:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 25 Sep 2001 22:33:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailgw2.netvision.net.il) (194.90.1.9) by mta2 with SMTP; 25 Sep 2001 22:33:19 -0000 Received: from oemcomputer (ras8-p87.rvt.netvision.net.il [62.0.181.216]) by mailgw2.netvision.net.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAB00262 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 00:33:17 +0200 (IST) Message-ID: <030b01c14612$3b4c5b20$d8b5003e@oemcomputer> To: "lojban list" References: Subject: Re: [lojban] Dumb answers to good questions Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 00:29:37 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 From: "Adam Raizen" la xod cusku di'e > Well I think that's sufficiently handled with ba'e, personally. I am > willing to sacrifice some English expressiveness in Lojban, though. I > think we should all be so ready, to some extent. If we aren't, what is > stopping Lojban from becoming not an independent language but a superset > of all Earth languages? If that were possible, why wouldn't it be desirable? If Sapir-Whorf is correct, Lojban is supposed *expand* thought, and if it's limited in any way, then its not fulfilling its function as well as it could. If Lojban were simply a different whorfian classification of the world, what would be the point? There are plenty of languages which are different to go around. mu'o mi'e .adam.