#loglang

[risotto38]

an example of Kinskan math! this is a quartic equation that I attempted to figure out

[shutthefuckupotherkin]

What do you think of Lojban? I understand it's meant to be a logical, potentially universal language, but it sounds and looks awfully complicated. :/

Lojban is designed to eliminate ambiguous statements, so you could avoid things like "I saw a coyote using binoculars" (which has two meanings - "I saw a coyote while I was using binoculars" or "I saw a coyote, and that coyote was using binoculars"). This would make it pretty great for, say, things that cannot tolerate ambiguity, such as computer parsing systems or robots.

However, it's also fuck ugly, and while the sentiment of a universal language is nice, access to its learning materials is naturally limited by internet access - plus I suspect most of the available material is aimed at English speakers. Ambiguity in language, to me, is also a source of joy and amusement; in English, without it, we wouldn't have a lot of our jokes or poems. (I wonder what kind of jokes exist in Lojban?)