From xod@sixgirls.org Thu Mar 08 14:11:48 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@erika.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 8 Mar 2001 22:11:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 44001 invoked from network); 8 Mar 2001 22:11:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 8 Mar 2001 22:11:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO erika.sixgirls.org) (209.208.150.50) by mta2 with SMTP; 8 Mar 2001 22:11:46 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by erika.sixgirls.org (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f28MBjY18502 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 17:11:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 17:11:44 -0500 (EST) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: [humanmarkup] Introducing the Logical Language Group In-Reply-To: <3AA7ED64.7030309@reutershealth.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, John Cowan wrote: > michael helsem wrote: > > > > why not--first of all, how do we say "human markup" in lojban? > > i confess i'm not familiar with the jargon that's taken from... > > then, what's "XML"? > > A method of marking up text or data to provide structure and > additional information about it. > ja'o stidi lu datni ke galfi barna ke'e tadni co re'asnu > > so why reify any particular notation, even lojban's, when there's > > no useful consensus? > > The fact that there is no way to do everything is not a justification > for doing nothing. I think it's not that Lojban can't do everything, but that not everyone will agree that Lojban's notation is best. Why do we select a particular notation when any proposal will encounter resistance? Probably because WE feel a given notation is superior, and history will be the final arbiter. We want to float Lojbanic ideas of structure, so that there will be an easy mapping between the new Semantic Web structures and the structures of Lojban. Then the only arbitrary aspect of Lojban remaining is the vocabulary. ----- We do not like And if a cat those Rs and Ds, needed a hat? Who can't resist Free enterprise more subsidies. is there for that!