Re: Linguistics journals

[Chris Bogart <cbogart@QUETZAL.COM>]

On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, HACKER G N wrote:
> > {ci}, and {tu'a} in them.  In other words, maybe Lojan could be useful in
> > the same way math notation or normal predicate calculus are useful.
>
> Don't you think linguists/logicians already HAVE such notational schemes
> in place, which are accepted generally within their own communities? Why
> would they want to learn a WHOLE NEW LANGUAGE just so they can re-invent
> the wheel? :)

Well if they've already done all this, why are *we* reinventing the
wheel?  We could just take their scheme, add vocabulary words and a
method of pronouncing the symbols.  I thought what we were doing was more
ambitious than what was already available.  I'd be interested in hearing
more about some of these notational schemes.

Thanks,
Chris