From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Aug 08 16:39:20 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-members); Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:39:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GAbAM-0005Dh-PU for llg-members@lojban.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:39:18 -0700 Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 16:39:18 -0700 To: llg-members@lojban.org Subject: [llg-members] Re: LLG 2006 Annual Meeting Thread Message-ID: <20060808233918.GF28190@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-members@lojban.org References: <20060707224943.GB18983@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20060807041126.GE28190@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <44D6D0E3.30801@lojban.org> <44D77A08.9080800@kli.org> <44D78A18.4070802@kli.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44D78A18.4070802@kli.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 259 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-members@lojban.org X-list: llg-members On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 02:44:40PM -0400, Mark E. Shoulson wrote: > But I don't like the idea of any sort of "competition," even for > promotional purposes. Maybe especially for promotional purposes. > The two languages are so different anyway, there's no way there > could be a fair comparison (it's *much* harder to do a good > translation into Lojban, for me anyway, simply because there are > so many ways to say it and such high potential quality of > expression in Lojban. In Klingon, if what you come up with isn't > really quite right, that's okay because you're not likely to find > something better. You can't really compare the two) And the > impression it leaves in people's minds that this language "beat" > that one... it's not helpful to the community (the Lojban > community, the Klingon community, or the conlang community as a > whole). I think as long as every is clearly having fun and not taking themselves too seriously, it doesn't matter. Also, I believe that with a little practice a good Lojbanist could get used to not worrying how good their sentence was. In other words, I'm not with you on this; I think it makes great show and we need the publicity. -Robin -- 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/