From a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com Sat Aug 04 10:33:46 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 4 Aug 2001 17:33:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 61028 invoked from network); 4 Aug 2001 17:33:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 4 Aug 2001 17:33:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO relay3-gui.server.ntli.net) (194.168.4.200) by mta1 with SMTP; 4 Aug 2001 17:33:46 -0000 Received: from m565-mp1-cvx2b.bre.ntl.com ([62.253.86.53] helo=andrew) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with smtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 15T53k-0006Cq-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Sat, 04 Aug 2001 18:17:56 +0100 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] registry of experimental cmavo Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 18:32:53 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010718211008.00c5d600@127.0.0.1> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" Lojbab: > At 11:32 PM 07/18/2001 +0100, And Rosta wrote: > >I see teachability as a secondary issue that should not constrain design. > > Whereas Loglan/Lojban has been from the start a language intended to be > spoken and therefore taught. If it can't be taught, it shouldn't be part > of the language. The exceptions were things that JCB considered necessary > in keeping with our (original) goal of eventually reuniting the community. Loglan/Lojban has also for the last decade been a language not intended to be spoken and therefore taught. So intentions about teachability are extrinsic to the language. Anyway, everything is teachable, and though some things teach more easily than others, there is scant evidence of this having influenced Lojban's design. --And.