From xod@sixgirls.org Thu Oct 19 13:37:22 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_1_0); 19 Oct 2000 20:37:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 22114 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2000 20:37:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 19 Oct 2000 20:37:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO erika.sixgirls.org) (209.208.150.50) by mta2 with SMTP; 19 Oct 2000 20:37:19 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by erika.sixgirls.org (8.11.0+3.3W/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9JKbIV05047 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 16:37:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 16:37:18 -0400 (EDT) To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: literalism [was: Re: [lojban] Re: looking at arjlujv.txt In-Reply-To: <76.401ea77.2720b0a9@aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 pycyn@aol.com wrote: And, of > course, we always do -- those kinds of tanru and lujvo are a dime-a-dozen and > a machine (or a rough human equivalent) can grind them out. But they are not > proper additions to the language (any more than strict versions of maikl's > quirky Lojban sentences are creative or poetic). Enamored with grammatic unambiguity, jboka'e also often reach for semantic unambiguity. But while the former can be proven with yacc rules, the latter is and always will be completely subjective. And in subjectivity, the shortest distance is often a rambling line, not a straight one. ----- It takes a lot of work to realize how little work it takes to achieve Slack.