From cowan@ccil.org Mon May 05 17:55:14 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_6_6); 6 May 2003 00:55:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 76391 invoked from network); 6 May 2003 00:55:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 6 May 2003 00:55:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 May 2003 00:55:11 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Cqjg-0008Cj-00; Mon, 05 May 2003 20:55:12 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 20:55:12 -0400 To: Craig Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Some ideas/questions (long) Message-ID: <20030506005512.GE27938@ccil.org> References: <20030506003536.GC27938@ccil.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=212516 X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan Craig scripsit: > But we copied most of the grammar, no? Re-created it, more accurately. There are Loglan constructions that don't map into Lojban ones, if only a few, and there are lots of areas (notably tense and MEX) where Lojban has lots of structure and Lojban is just "string of cmavo". > Oskar's proposed new language would > not have all its words in common with lojban - it couldn't, as they would be > monosyllables. If you want Gua\spi, you know where to find it: http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/guaspi/ -- They do not preach John Cowan that their God will rouse them jcowan@reutershealth.com A little before the nuts work loose. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan They do not teach http://www.reutershealth.com that His Pity allows them --Rudyard Kipling, to drop their job when they damn-well choose. "The Sons of Martha" From cowan@ccil.org Mon May 05 17:55:14 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_6_6); 6 May 2003 00:55:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 76391 invoked from network); 6 May 2003 00:55:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 6 May 2003 00:55:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 May 2003 00:55:11 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Cqjg-0008Cj-00; Mon, 05 May 2003 20:55:12 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 20:55:12 -0400 To: Craig Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Some ideas/questions (long) Message-ID: <20030506005512.GE27938@ccil.org> References: <20030506003536.GC27938@ccil.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=212516 X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan Craig scripsit: > But we copied most of the grammar, no? Re-created it, more accurately. There are Loglan constructions that don't map into Lojban ones, if only a few, and there are lots of areas (notably tense and MEX) where Lojban has lots of structure and Lojban is just "string of cmavo". > Oskar's proposed new language would > not have all its words in common with lojban - it couldn't, as they would be > monosyllables. If you want Gua\spi, you know where to find it: http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/guaspi/ -- They do not preach John Cowan that their God will rouse them jcowan@reutershealth.com A little before the nuts work loose. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan They do not teach http://www.reutershealth.com that His Pity allows them --Rudyard Kipling, to drop their job when they damn-well choose. "The Sons of Martha"