Re: Lojban

Padraic Brown <elemtilas@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:27:47 -0400, Bob LeChevalier
><lojbab@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>Padraic Brown <elemtilas@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>That will depend on what you mean by it - the context is insufficient
>>>>to identify the intended meaning.
>>>
>>>I take it you don't listen to AM radio. The context is the top of the
>>>hour moment when the radio station jingle announces "WXYZ, 1551AM,
>>>with your news, s****ts and weather at the top of the hour!"
>>
>>The statement is multiply ambiguous and false to boot (it's marketing,
>>so we should expect this).  There will in fact be no s****ts at the top
>>of the hour.  For one thing, hours are not physical objects and have
>>no "tops".  
>
>Rest snipped for brevity. If you choose not to answer the question,
>kindly say so!

I am saying that there are so many answers that no answer that I would
give would necessarily be correct and unchallengeable.

>I can only take this to mean that "s****ts" is something
>that can't be discussed in Lojban

Of course it can.  "mela'o gy. s****ts gy." means exactly whatever the
English word s****ts means, having borrowed it intact as non-Lojban
text.  But few Lojbanists would choose such a copout, and no
broadcaster would.

 and that Lojban is not a language
>that could ever be used for daily life.

It certainly could. But the concepts that would be used would probably
not map exactly to English language concepts.  So the broadcaster
would say something else about what was to be broadcast, dividing the
categories of the world differently.  That is the way languages work.

lojbab