From lojbab@lojban.org Thu Jul 19 23:57:01 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 20 Jul 2001 06:57:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 45617 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2001 06:56:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 20 Jul 2001 06:56:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-4.cais.net) (205.252.14.74) by mta3 with SMTP; 20 Jul 2001 06:56:45 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (ppp50.net-A.cais.net [205.252.61.50]) by stmpy-4.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f6K6ug225848 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 02:56:43 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010720025758.00c407c0@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 03:00:35 -0400 To: Subject: RE: greeks and love (was RE: [lojban] registry of experimental cmavo - new pr... In-Reply-To: References: <107.2cec267.2888bfeb@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 09:16 PM 07/19/2001 -0400, Craig wrote: > > > > >Never was any, never will be. No theory -- and certainly no practice -- > >allows it in language. And if you think the descriptive component has > >problems, imagine what happens in the emotive one, where there is not even >a > >"common ground" against which to check things. > >I know there never was any, but there still IS a CLAIM of total ambiguity. Where? Not in anything Lojbanic. > I >like the language even though it is ambiguous, but I'm not here for the >unambiguity part. I think we should stop even saying we are unambiguous. Lojban is GRAMMATICALLY unambiguous, and also is unambiguous in the sense of having audiovisual isomorphism between text and speech. I believe we explicitly say that Lojban is NOT semantically unambiguous. lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org