Subject: Re: [lojban] The Future Jbotreya (was: Why linguists might be interested in Lojban (was: a new kind of fundamentalism))

From: Robert LeChevalier <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 05:45:25 -0400

At 11:12 PM 10/8/02 -0400, Invent Yourself wrote:
>On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Robert LeChevalier wrote:
> > You can detect incompleteness.
>
>Is Lojban incomplete?

Yes. The jboske discussions that result from "How do you say X"?" indicate 
this. (Not the fact that they exist, but the fact that often there is no 
ready answer.)

> > In terms of current Lojban, my guess is that a level 4 person, when
> > confronted by ANY "how to say it" question that is worthy of weeks of
> > jboske debate would know the answer off the top of his head, and it would
> > be unarguably correct. (A level 5 speaker could come up with multiple ways
> > to say it and explain the pros and cons and nuances of each in terms that
> > everyone would recognize as unarguably correct
>
>Isn't it exciting to imagine such a thing?

Yes. But I don't expect to see it in this generation.

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