From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Mon Nov 20 11:41:00 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:41:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GmF0k-0008VM-67 for llg-board@lojban.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:40:58 -0800 Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:40:58 -0800 To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] [lizi@upp.co.il: PERMISSION TO USE SOME TEXT FROM YOUR WEBSITE] Message-ID: <20061120194058.GK30113@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-board@lojban.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 274 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-board@lojban.org X-list: llg-board I believe all of this stuff is PD; if anyone objects to that statement, speak up. I'm going to ask for attribution, though. -Robin ----- Forwarded message from Liz Bleier ----- Subject: PERMISSION TO USE SOME TEXT FROM YOUR WEBSITE From: Liz Bleier To: lojban@lojban.org Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:51:37 +0200 Hello, I represent a publishing company in Israel. We publish text books for teaching English as a second language. One of our authors has used some text from your site as a part of a reading comprehension/didactic element in a 10 grade book called Dimensions, due for release in July of next year. Do I need special permission to use this material? The entire text which will appear in the book is reproduced below. Lojban - a Logical Language I Lojban is a carefully constructed spoken language designed to make human communication simpler. Lojban has been built over five decades by dozens of workers and hundreds of supporters. Lojban, in Lojban, means "logical language". Lojbanistan is both an imaginary country where Lojban is spoken and, in practice, the international community of Lojban-speakers. Lojban itself came out of an earlier language project called Loglan, and it shares Loglan's interest in the idea that the language you speak affects the way you think. One of the main ideas behind the Lojban project was to create a language, which is both highly expressive and as culturally neutral as possible. II While there are many artificial languages, Lojban has a number of features, which make it unique: ? Lojban is designed to be used by people in communication with each other, and possibly in the future with computers. ? Lojban is designed to be culturally neutral. ? Lojban grammar is clear and based on the principles of logic. ? Lojban has phonetic spelling. ? Lojban is easy to learn. ? Lojban's 1300 root words can be easily combined to form a vocabulary of millions of words. ? Lojban is regular; the rules of the language have no exceptions. III In addition to Lojban?s unique features, it can also be used as an international language. Nevertheless, it is in no competition with any of the dozens of "international languages", the most famous being Esperanto. Lojban?s advantage lies in its multiple uses and purposes. Since Lojban is a fairly new language, it is possible that the more people use it the more it will change and develop. Thanks. Please reply to the email address. Mrs. Elizabeth Bleier University Publishing Projects 10 Zarhin Street Raanana, Israel ----- End forwarded message ----- -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/