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--- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, "HandyDad" <lsulky@r...> wrote: > --- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...> > wrote: > > Does anybody see any utility in this Loglan system? > > http://www.loglan.org/Articles/lepu-nardu.html > > Not at this point. It fails the explain/maintain test, and I think more > pedestrian, less "elegant" solutions to the issue will arise. Good. I agree. I never quite saw what was going on with the Loglan anyway. Moreover, the one 'po' abstraction is sort of covered by the work 'ke', which makes a sentence into a clause that can be manipulated like a noun phrase. > P.S. I liked your explanation of the etymology of the Ceqli word for > 'if' in the latest vocabulary (which I don't have in front of me): "It > means 'if', believe it or not." That's fine. You're not trying to > convince anyone of the rightness of the derivation, you're just > saying that that's the way it is. The fact that you have derived it > logically is secondary in the mind of someone learning the > language, I believe. You know, that's exactly right. Sort of thing that maybe belongs in an appendix. Like a set of the connectives and a truth table, as in the Loglan version.