Re: veridicality in grammar

[Chris Bogart <cbogart@quetzal.com>]

se cusku le ctuca be la goran ku fa di'e:
>A natural language is an independent system in self-organisation(*) with
>human entities. Q: Does it include Esperanto, then? Explicit A: YES,
>if humans use it for communication with other humans, which they do.
>
>An artificial language is designed for communication with a human-engineered
>apparatus(*), and is not independent, but manufactured with the apparatus
>(because there is no influence on the language by use, like with nat.langs.)
>
>Natural languages divide further into spontaneous and non-spontaneous ones.
>I guess you can tell which is which: English and Croatian are considered
>to be among former, while Lojban and Esperanto are in latter ones.

He appears to be dividing things into the same categories I am but using
different terms.  I particularly like the term "spontaneous" to distinguish
French from Esperanto.  I'm still uncomfortable with "natural", though,
because lojban doesn't have anything more to do with Nature than C++ does!
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 Chris Bogart
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