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In a message dated 6/10/2002 10:20:18 AM Central Daylight Time, arosta@hidden.email writes:From the outset, the Lojban project took the view that it was better Well, it did not take this view, mainly because it never considered this choice. Its gaol was to devise a language that would be a complete human language but would have a markedly different -- and simpler -- structure from familiar languages. It happened to take as the base for that structure first order predicate logic (JCB knew a bit of this from classes Broadbeck -- but not much). It might have tried the syntax of COBOL or some other computer language just as easily (except JCB never was much of a computerist, especially in the early days -- but then, who was?). Any notion of some further connection with logic was a later addition, probably after the 1975 publication. It is not in 1960 or 1962. <It's fair to say that the Lojban project is succeeding very well with its avowed aims, and that as a loglang it is half-baked. > Well, half-baked is probably an underestimate. I think it is much better than that. But then, I think English is at least half-baked and probably better too. Neither is finished to &'s specifications -- or any other specification of what logical or semantic form should be, at least partly because no two people (well, cliques) agree on what that is. |