Examples of unambiguous nonsense?

[Richard Kennaway <cbmvax!uunet!information-systems.east-anglia.ac.uk!jrk>]

I hope crossposting to the Loglan and Lojban lists is ok.  My topic is
independent of the details of either language.


On another mailing list, the topic of logical languages has come up, with
some people taking the view that a "logical language" would be limiting to
thought.  I am trying to argue that in fact a logical language is more
likely to be liberating.

One point is that the unambiguity of Loglan and Lojban makes it possible to
speak "nonsense" and still be understood, without activating conscious or
unconscious mechanisms for forcing a "sensible" interpretation of whatever
one hears, which the ambiguity of natural languages makes necessary.

However, I haven't thought of a good example of this.  Can anyone provide a
Loglan or Lojban utterance which expresses an intelligible, if unusual,
thought, which one would have difficulty in getting across in English?

(The mailing list in question is a private one, which I don't feel I should
name here.  It is devoted to, um, metaprogramming experiences.)

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Richard Kennaway     SYS, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, U.K.
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