Re: Some Sanity? ;-)was: Re: LUNATIC again

Robert J. Petry wrote:

> Lojbab wrote:
> > Same would be true if I
> > had tried to post this in Lojban.  No one would have read it.
>
> The one exception being, if you did read it [the text in
Occidental recently posted here], you could read it.

I could read it, and Ray Brown could read it (if he did), but Lojbab
couldn't have read it, trust me.  For an educated man, his
limitations are amazing.  (I say this with all affection.)

Pure monolingual English speakers still have to learn a lot to
understand Occ. or IALA Int. from scratch.

> I'm not sure I, or anyone else here could read Lojban without
> studying it.
No, you couldn't.  Even if all the content words were replaced by
their English equivalents, you still couldn't.  (We've tried that.)

> Maybe you could post a
> sample of what it looks like sometime.
See http://pc.xiron.helsinki.fi/lojban/ .

> I would love to use
> Occidental on such a list.
I have occasionally thought about posting in Brithenig on CELTIC-L,
but I fear the wrath of the community if I did.

--
John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)