Thread:User talk:Armondikov/Cognitive-linguistic mapping essay/reply (22)

But again, that's BS. Human language does not work that way. It may be that as long as the ONLY people speaking lojban are computers - it's fine. But humans have multiple meanings; we have associations; we have emotionality, and of course if a real human conversation happened using lojban, you could tell some to literally "jump in a lake" or "fly to the moon" and context alone would instantly show that it's some kind of metaphor, cause one cannot jump in a lake in that situation. no matter what grammar you structure or what vocab u use. If it's humans talking, it WILL necessarily create metaphor, offense (oh, you can always say "You are ugly, lojban or not..that's offensive especially if the language is logical enough that "ugly" means something different than "not beautiful" which means something different than "hideous", and all of those are precise).

To me, the most obvious weakness of constructed languages like this, is they remove the human mind, and the very nature of language itself, to try to create something for machines to use. (which surly has it's importance!)