From jkominek@miranda.org Thu Aug 02 17:17:22 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:17:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from miranda.org ([216.93.242.2]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IGkr0-0005uh-Ap for llg-board@lojban.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:17:20 -0700 Received: (qmail 22686 invoked by uid 534); 2 Aug 2007 18:17:16 -0600 Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 18:17:16 -0600 From: Jay F Kominek To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Re: Translating "What Is Lojban?" Into Hindi Message-ID: <20070803001716.GR12963@miranda.org> References: <20070802203248.GI18057@nvg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070802203248.GI18057@nvg.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 313 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jkominek@miranda.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-board@lojban.org X-list: llg-board On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 10:32:48PM +0200, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:48:21AM -0400, Matt Arnold wrote: > > > > The project would be charged on a flat rate. Part-time work would cost > > $2,990 for the project over two months, and full-time work would cost > > $2,495 over one month. Half of the payment would be due up front, the > > other half upon completion, and would be made via wire transfer. > > This is so expensive that we need to think hard about how we are > going to sell the book when it's done. Do we have an adequate > distribution model for India? I'd be more concerned about the support model. So we convince N Hindi-only or mostly-Hindi speaking Indians to take up Lojban. Do we have even N/1000 Hindi speaking lojbanists to answer their questions when they want to go further? Do we anticipate so many donations from them to cover the translation of further texts? I'm open to the idea of paid translations, but there needs to be a plan for what happens next. I'm also dubious about the choice of Hindi. There are certainly huge numbers of Hindi speakers, but that isn't the only figure we need to worry about. Rather, we need to know how many of them have the leisure time to learn a constructed language. Then we need to know what portion of that population doesn't already read English competently. -- Jay Kominek