From graywyvern@hotmail.com Thu Jun 15 15:02:02 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25146 invoked from network); 15 Jun 2000 22:01:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 15 Jun 2000 22:01:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.237.96) by mta1 with SMTP; 15 Jun 2000 22:01:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 85419 invoked by uid 0); 15 Jun 2000 22:01:30 -0000 Message-ID: <20000615220130.85418.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 209.176.48.50 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:01:30 PDT X-Originating-IP: [209.176.48.50] To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Lojban's linguistical potentials Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:01:30 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed From: "michael helsem" >From: "Alfred W. Tueting (Tüting)" li'o >Lojban for sure can be a promise to mankind to >equally being *neutral*, sensitive-precise/sensitive-fuzzy and - >hopefully first of all - *open* to the wide range and scale of >conveying the contents of all the languages used to express/form >human thoughts/feelings etc.. Limited in its outer 'shape' though >(and 'restricted' to its very independency by logic), Lojban could >have a unique chance to 'drink from all the different manifold >sources of human spirit and soul', to open and widen itself, and thus >being/becoming a means for the world able to comprise >everything ever thought and expressed by mankind ... felo banslabu po'o ta'e cusku (As long as we only try to render things in Lojban that we've already expressed in our native language first,) .iseni'ibo le lobyse'i naje le lobyfrica cu jijykra (our imaginations are not really being challenged by the nature of Lojban itself, only the differences between that & the other language.) .i nitcu filenu lojbo kakne bece'u be'o djuno kei fale zu'o ba'e kelci (In order to find out what Lojban can do we have to PLAY with it.) ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com