Re: [stack] Lojban (was: cabbages and kings)

In fact, most modern linguistic theories (Minimalism, Government &
Binding, Lexical-Functional grammar, or any other one I can think of)
don't hold that natural language is even context-free. There's too
much stuff to be checked (for example, case and pronouns) for this to
be possible. But maybe this is off-topic.

Dan

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 5:18 PM, John Cowan <[email protected]> wrote:
> All your facts are correct, but your inference is unsupported: there
> is zero evidence that the LALR(1) grammar (which is only so if you
> do some pre-aggregating of certain words) has anything to do with
> the problems people have had in becoming fluent. Fluency requires a
> tightly interacting speaker community, and because Lojban materials
> are available only in English, and Lojban users are scattered all over
> the planet, it's hard to create that speaker community. By contrast,
> Esperanto-speakers came from all over Europe and often met face-to-face
> with no common language but Esperanto.
>
> I'm not in touch with it myself, but I understand there is a Skype
> community chat now, with speakers at varying fluency levels.
>
> --
> How they ever reached any conclusion at all <[email protected]>
> is starkly unknowable to the human mind. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
> --"Backstage Lensman", Randall Garrett
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