Re:Loglan – a predicate logic-based language for humans
by garmaine on Friday October 05, 2018 @08:38AM
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Unless I’m missing something, that’s not per se what loglan/lojban sets out to achieve. Does Turkish have precise, unambiguous syntax and morphology? Meaning there is never (other than context dependent semantics) any way for one sentence to be parsed two different ways?
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Re:Loglan – a predicate logic-based language for humans
by wirrbel on Saturday October 06, 2018 @02:00AM
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Of course Turkish has its ambiguities and was not designed with the same ideas in mind as Lojban.
But it is in many ways more precise syntactically than other languages and almost completely regular. This is also due to some "cleansing" of the language from Persian and Arabic influences in the early 20th century.
Imho with languages the elephant in the room is context. I don't see how the additional rigour in syntax compared to Turkish would be scoring points for lojban, when the contextual problems that both languages face are not solved.