From arj@nvg.ntnu.no Sun Mar 16 03:04:57 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:04:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no ([129.241.210.67]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JapjW-0006KB-8c for llg-board@lojban.org; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:04:56 -0700 Received: from hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no [129.241.210.68]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2826C94786 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:04:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (8.13.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id m2GA4Wj8015612 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:04:32 +0100 Received: (from arj@localhost) by hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id m2GA4Sq1015611 for llg-board@lojban.org; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:04:28 +0100 Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:04:28 +0100 From: Arnt Richard Johansen To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] [mr_meanderer@yahoo.com: i'm new to the language and...] Message-ID: <20080316100428.GF27740@nvg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-NVG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-NVG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: arj@nvg.ntnu.no X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 369 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: arj@nvg.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-board@lojban.org X-list: llg-board Matt, can you respond to this? I could do it, but I'd basically just write "sorry, but Lojban for Beginners is the best we've got". I know you have a talent for giving it a positive spin. :-) ----- Forwarded message from Jacob Puritz ----- From: Jacob Puritz Subject: i'm new to the language and... To: lojban@lojban.org Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:23:07 -0700 (PDT) hi, my name is Jacob, and I stumbled across lojban by looking up constructed languages at a science fiction site. I had always been interested in the fictional languages made real, like Klingon or Elvish. I had wanted to learn one of those, but this caught my eye. I've read the introduction to the book, what is lojban?, but I've always learned languages in a classroom, using a combination of written and spoken excersizes, with a textbook. Is there a program available to download that could simulate such an experience? Or an online class? In any case, I'm going to try to learn the language as best I can; it's much better than French (my high school language) anyway. Thanks for listening. Sincerely, Jacob --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Arnt Richard Johansen http://arj.nvg.org/ "I had to translate this sentence into English because I could not read the original Sanskrit." --Douglas Hofstadter