What are you saying about Lojban, Ivan???

[Ivan A Derzhanski <cbmvax!uunet!cogsci.ed.ac.uk!iad>]

I did mean to say (and I have always thought so) that Lojban isn't
made of the same wood as all the natural languages out there, and
therefore may not be learnable as a first language in the same way as
they are, and I'll illustrate what I mean by that in a while.

In the meantime, Bob, don't worry, your kids will be all right,
because they already can at least speak Russian.  I was implying that
if Lojban is the first language they hear, and the only language they
hear during the language acquisition period, and if Lojban turns out
to be not learnable in the natural way, they may miss the opportunity
to learn a human language, which is given but for a limited time, and
end up knowing no language at all.

I'll be interested to see what your kids will make of Lojban, though,
if you teach them it as you would a second natural language - that is,
without telling them anything about logic and the rest of the theory
behind Lojban.

Ivan