Subject: Re: [lojban] Lojban can help?

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 14:46:37 PDT

la pycyn cusku di'e

> <<>But the point is that lb
> >can say this very easily.
>
> Yes, almost as easily as English... :) >>
>
>But with the advantage that the person is inherent in the predicate, not an
>add-on, which the original author, at least, thought was a problem.

I'm not sure it really is an advantage. For those not of
the subjectivist persuasion it may be preferrable that
the language make it a bit more awkward to express "nonsense".
For the Sapir-Whorfians this might be a good test: does
learning Lojban turn you into a subjectivist?

co'o mi'e xorxes

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