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

John Cowan wrote:
> William Tanksley scripsit:
> > I don't quite understand. Do you mean that Ogden defined idioms for BE
> > in an attempt to reduce the word-vocabulary? That is very interesting.
> No, he just licensed the use of any and all such idioms that already exist
> in Full English.  So "put out" in BE may mean not only "place outside",
> but also "expel", "anger", or "copulate", just as in FE.

That is truly terrible. It baffles me that he didn't realize what a bad
idea that was. In other words, anyone may use any sequence of words to
mean anything; but you're not allowed invent a new word.

That's the worst of all worlds: the reader can't recognise a new concept
as unknown to you, AND the writer can't tersely express new concepts.

I see why you're unhappy with it.

-Wm