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A comment on Lojban.

Re:Lojban by sneak on Saturday May 30, 2015 @05:31AM (#9629582)
The only reason I haven't started learning Lojban is because the only other people I could practice speaking with are people who have learned Lojban.
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Re:Lojban by stesch on Saturday May 30, 2015 @05:38AM (#9629598)
http://www.xkcd.com/191/
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Re:Lojban by sneak on Saturday May 30, 2015 @07:54AM (#9629862)
xkcd is to nerds what Seinfeld is to comedy.
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Re:Lojban by noonespecial on Saturday May 30, 2015 @08:19AM (#9629920)
Its worse. Its approaching "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" territory amongst the nerdy set.(1)

(1) It's turtles all the way down. (1)

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Re:Lojban by tzs on Saturday May 30, 2015 @08:56AM (#9630015)
Of course there is a Darmok and Jalad xkcd: https://xkcd.com/902/
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Re:Lojban by noonespecial on Saturday May 30, 2015 @09:07AM (#9630049)
Which is now the D&J@T xkcd for that particular episode of TNG...

So. Many. Turtles.

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Re:Lojban by jqgatsby on Saturday May 30, 2015 @11:24AM (#9630440)
"Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" aliens are using a prototype language like Javascript, instead of a class based language like Java. I think we need a programming language that takes this to its natural conclusion, where everything is expressed as weighted directed associations between objects (or weights on ordered lists of objects).
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Re:Lojban by qbrass on Sunday May 31, 2015 @01:34AM (#9633211)
The Vulcans do that through a mind meld.
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Re:Lojban by gleki on Saturday May 30, 2015 @11:34AM (#9630482)
This can be applied to any language actually.
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Re:Lojban by JoeAltmaier on Saturday May 30, 2015 @11:35AM (#9630484)
With widely varying results
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