From jjllambias@hotmail.com Tue Jan 29 11:26:08 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jjllambias@hotmail.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 29 Jan 2002 19:26:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 7869 invoked from network); 29 Jan 2002 19:26:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m5.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 29 Jan 2002 19:26:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.241.81) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 29 Jan 2002 19:26:08 -0000 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 11:26:08 -0800 Received: from 200.69.6.46 by lw8fd.law8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 19:26:07 GMT To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Bcc: Subject: Re: lojban as a programming language [was Re: [lojban] Lojban for lay programmers] Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 19:26:07 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Jan 2002 19:26:08.0039 (UTC) FILETIME=[CD28FB70:01C1A8FA] From: "Jorge Llambias" X-Originating-IP: [200.69.6.46] X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=6071566 X-Yahoo-Profile: jjllambias2000 Lee Daniel Crocker: >And I don't know whether or not Lojban will ever become a full- >fledge "human language". I hope so, but I fear that the fact that >it was designed utterly without regard to the hard-wired language >processing features of the human brain might make that difficult. It wasn't designed with any specific regard to such features, but it is based pretty closely on existing languages, so it is not clear that that would be a problem. >I'm not saying that was a bad decision: indeed, that's one of the >very purposes for which it was created: to see if it could help >discover such features. But cognitive science beat us to the >punch, and there is now no serious doubt that such features are >present, so Lojban's deviance from them is a problem for getting >it accepted as a common-use language. Is there any obvious deviation in Lojban from what is required for a common-use language? mu'o mi'e xorxes _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com