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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject: perfection vs excellence 
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sdlee@cs.hku.hk (Lee Sau Dan ~{@nJX6X~}) writes in a recent posting (reference <7fk9ud3p4b.fsf@wisdom.cs.hku.hk>):
>
>According to my limited knowledge of  Lojban, the Lojban lexicon is so
>carefully designed that it doesn't have such intrinsic ambiguity.  The
>Lojban  grammar is also intrinsically  unambiguous, as proved with the
>aid of computers.  (Correct me if I'm wrong.)
>
Creating a language free of this kind of ambiguity may make it closer
to a rarified kind of "perfection" but I doubt that this makes it more
useful, nor in any meaningful way more excellent.

Lojban may contain fewer ambiguities than Esperanto, but does this not 
undermine its potential for humour? emotive expressiveness? poetry?

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