Re: Hypersimple & Dreadfully Unnatural Grammars

Raimundus A. Brown scripsit:

> Sorry - I'd better go back a take another look.  I thought Loglan had been
> based  on clausal form logic a bit like Prolog, which is certainly prefix,
> e.g.
> killed( conspirators, 'Caesar').
> loves(  'Antony', 'Cleopatra').
> etc.
Lojban semantics is founded on 1st-order logic, which is a superset
of Prolog logic of course, but Lojban syntax is not influenced by
Prolog's at all.  I once translated a small Prolog program into
Lojban, and it comes out grammatical but repetitious, since Lojban
makes you "declare" all variables with an explicit universal quantifier
and Prolog doesn't.

--
John Cowan                                      cowan@ccil.org
                e'osai ko sarji la lojban.