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Re: [HUMOR] How many Lojbanist...

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 22:31
# 1 wrote:

> Gregory Gadow wrote: > >> I don't know which makes me the bigger geek: that I understood the joke >> enough to find it funny, or that I found it in the first place. >> >> Q: How many Lojbanists does it take to change a broken light bulb? >> >> A: Two. One to decide what to change it in to, and one to figure out >> what >> kind of bulb emits broken light. >> >> >> Gregg > > > I understand but is there a reason in it for being lojbanists? I'd have > understood if it had been "How many guys..." > > Is it that in a lojban sentence, "broken light bulb" would be linked from > the beggining in ((broken light) bulb) instead of beggining from the > end in > (broken (light bulb))? > > But I don't know what's the point of a lojbanist for the word change
A lojbanist because it's pointing out that the point of a logical language is to eliminate any ambiguity whatsoever in meaning.