i would think that people would speak faster as the very purpose of things like .y'y is to make what is being said easy to convey and hard to confuse. and...
Yay! I'm on the list now. I can defend my message! Before I start, in the interests of disclosure, and providing a context for my comments: I am an idealist....
... Granted, the representationalism in the symbols *is* fairly arbitrary at its lowest level, as are the modifiers to those symbols. But the compound symbols...
... As to the necessity of a new alphabet, I've addressed in another post. I'm not interested in Lojban because I *need* it. I'm interested in Lojban because...
coi jbonei How do you estimate the percentage of language-independent humor in 'overall' English/American humor, say, in a jest-book or the like? My next...
lo patfu be ko'a goi lo cmalu nanla cu terve'u lo kargu ke sirsunla kosta seva'u lo mamta be ko'a ku goi fo'o .i ko'a cusku fi fo'o fe lu xu do doi mamta cu...
... Probably all of us are idealists to one extent or another, or we wouldn't be interested in Lojban in the first place. ... I'm not sure what you mean by not...
... coi xius ... Well, Hangul is designed to serve one language, VS is meant to be able to represent all (or a significant portion of all) languages. It is...
... coi I'm trying out a new writing system in replying to this e-mail. Please don't take offense, I'm doing it to see if it helps with my focus in writing a...
In a message dated 7/3/2006 4:23:08 AM Central Standard Time, ... Why not deal with this issue *in* Lojban? After learning the language well enough to do...
... I thought so. :) ... No no no, I was just talking about talking. As I said, ideals can be dangerous. Overvaluing ideals is what makes extremists (as I...
... I tnhik he mnaes taht we dno't rlealy raed wdors lteter by ltteer, but we rethar raed tehm as wolhe wrods. For emplxae, if you slaffhe the lerttes isdine...
... Who slohud be rsepnoblise for the panteral crae of an ifnnat? The mohetr, the fhaetr, btoh, or the mfidiwe? phma To unsubscribe from this list, send mail...
... English has many words that are pronounced differently even though they are spelt the same! :) mu'o mi'e xorxes To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to...
... Or possibly "rlneaitg to the ftaehr olny" I guess that was the point. ~mark To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@... ...
... Exactly! A rough English translation: A father of a boy buys an explensive fur coat (for the mother of the boy). The boy says: "Mom, do you know that this...
... Perhaps You need {va'u lo mamta} there: "benefitting/for the benefit of the mother". The matter is that in Lojban {lo danlu .uu} can mean both "poor...
... This snuck by me. I don't see a question word in your Lojban punch line. So perhaps: .i fo'o cusku spuda ko'a lu .ue .i'e nai ma doi bersa cu ka'ergau do...
Hugh, Thanks for your contribution! Certainly, if anyone wishes to write Lojban in the Visual Speech alphabet, nothing is stopping them. It would not really be...
coi ro do Does anyone know where the original method for evaluating proposed gismu can be found? If not, how can one get to a decision regarding the form of...
... Give me a little time to look around. I have an old e-mail from Bob LeChevalier somewhere that explains the whole process fro generating gismu in detail. ...
Here it is.. (originally posted to alt.language.artificial). ... It is a multistep algorithm and not a formula. 1. For each root, identify similar word/words...
... Not sure what this means; nothing is visibly different. ... Lojban's alphabet is phonemic. English's is not (not even archephonemic -- covering the...
... Your analogy isn't bad. No matter how awesome the toaster, it simply will never need a nanosecond-resolution clock. So long as it's a toaster. What it...
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