# 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.