From phm@xxx.xxx Thu Jun 10 12:31:19 1999
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Message-ID: <44114.163.969.959273824@eGroups.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 21:31:19 +0200 (CEST)
From: PILCH Hartmut <phm@xxx.xxx
Subject: Re: lobbying for Lojban at the European Patent Office

On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, xod wrote:

> > I became interested in Lojban precisely because I feel the pain of
> > translating Japanese patent descriptions into faulty illogical languages
> > all the time. IMO Japanese syntax can hold more complexity with less
...
> Are you finding that you can't understand what the author really meant, or
> that you know what it going on but can't put it into words? 

Both, but more the latter.
Sometimes I need to resolve ambiguities without really being competent to
make the decision, more often I am forced to introduce ambiguities (by
creating huge nested sentences, with ambiguity multiplied by each nesting
layer) or to break up the structure into more readable English/German and
again make decisions that I am not authorized, such as redefining the
claimed scope of patent protection.

-phm