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At 12:52 AM 12/6/02 +0000, And Rosta wrote:
Right. It bugs me that because it is monosyllabic you go for {le}.
It's not your choice that bugs me; it's that the choices made by
the language designers in allocating phonological shapes to cmavo
should have such an impact on what we choose to say in our Lojban
sentences.
Do you realize you are being strongly Sapir-Whorfian in the implications of that line? If the matter of one syllable in sound length leads us to choose what you consider a less effective mode of communication, with a slightly different meaning therefore being communicated, then the structure of the language is indeed determining how we think in a rather strong way.
lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@hidden.email Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org