From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Sat Nov 28 10:33:56 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:33:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NES7H-0008F7-Ms for llg-board@lojban.org; Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:33:56 -0800 Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:33:55 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Re: [suomichris@gmail.com: Examination copy of "The Complete Lojban Language"?] Message-ID: <20091128183355.GV28932@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-board@lojban.org References: <20091128132010.GQ8278@nvg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-archive-position: 601 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 *Discount*? I say we get Bob to ship him a box and eat it. (Bob because a whole box would eat into Matt's stash pretty badly.) Matt: Can you find out how many he wants before we dive too deeply into this? -Robin On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:32:38PM -0500, Matt Arnold wrote: > Am I right or wrong in my understanding that this organization has > wanted academic attention for many years? I agree with Arnt. I > will arrange a discount price for Mr. Doty. > > -Eppcott > > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: > > IMHO, we should offer him a discount, especially given the fact that we are considering slashing the price after New Year's. > > > > But if we don't, we can point him to http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=The+Lojban+Reference+Grammar&bl, explain that it is nearly identical to the printed version, and that it has been cited in scholarly work at least once (Alan Libert's _A priori artificial languages_). > > > > ----- Forwarded message from Christopher Doty ----- > > > > From: Christopher Doty > > Subject: Examination copy of "The Complete Lojban Language"? > > To: lojban@lojban.org > > Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:48:08 -0800 > > > > Hello, > > > > I am a graduate student in linguistics, and planning to teach a course > > on constructed languages during the summer of 2010.  I was wondering > > if you are able to provide examination copies of "The Complete Lojban > > Language" at a discount? I certainly appreciate the work that you do, > > and realize that you are a non-profit; I simply can't afford to > > purchase the book at the list price. > > > > Thanks so much for your help. > > > > Best, > > > > Christopher S. Doty > > PhD Student > > Department of Linguistics > > University of Oregon > > > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > > > -- > > Arnt Richard Johansen                                http://arj.nvg.org/ > > På 1300-tallet kom tersen. Før og etter det var det meste bare rot, men > > så kom Schönberg og ordnet opp. Puh. Endelig litt system. Så klarte Arne > > Nordheim å rote det til igjen.                   -- Under Dusken 08/2001 > > > > > > > > -- They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something other than the default outcome?" See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/