From matt.mattarn@gmail.com Fri Aug 25 21:48:25 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-members); Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:48:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.238]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GGq5m-0001sj-3o for llg-members@lojban.org; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:48:23 -0700 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id r21so1183002wxc for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:48:19 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=HoKO5fv80rBK0Uob8n04OWR+WAD87yczdW4Jq5z4Qiulaux9ATDQRPSgY7XgGVk5QgMxprWaloQc8feht0FH3OCsR5mqXRk6PWQunqEcafKc8Dpal+aoAIdRANlCN3dsy9Tts3mYvhaykZ03kVoWJgEmTNbUdZ87kDsJzhxAE4Y= Received: by 10.90.116.6 with SMTP id o6mr802679agc; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:48:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.55.6 with HTTP; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:48:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 00:48:19 -0400 From: "Matt Arnold" To: "Alexander Powell" Subject: [llg-members] Re: Alex meets Lojban In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Spam-Score: -2.2 (--) X-archive-position: 275 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: matt.mattarn@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-members@lojban.org X-list: llg-members On 8/25/06, Alexander Powell wrote: > I first heard about Lojban from a friend at my school. I go to the > Maine School of Science and Mathematics (MSSM), so we're all into > nerdy stuff like this. Being on the East Coast, I wonder if you're interested in attending the Lojban Festival at Philcon in Philadelphia this November? I'll be there. > I got the brochure "What is Lojban?" online a > while back, and read much of that. The other day I found the textbook > online, and printed a hardcopy. Since then I have been studying it > enthusiastically. Awesome! Welcome! I hope to see you on the mailing lists and the IRC channel: http://www.lojban.org/irc/ > The hardest part seems to be remembering the > vocabulary. I use Supermemo on my handheld, but there is also a desktop version. Spaced repetition is the greatest. My friends and I are developing Karda, a spaced-repetition flashcard program optimized for Lojban, which will operate on the internet. It's coming along very swiftly. Here's a requirements demo I created to show the programmers what I had in mind: http://matt.mattarn.googlepages.com/karda > I was a little disappointed by the lack of dictionary. > Is there a target date for one to be published? Jbovlaste will create an up-to-the-minute dictionary PDF for you with all the latest words that have been created in the interactive system. http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/ Click "Dictionary production". > Also, I plan to start a Lojban club at MSSM this year. The school > only has about 120 students, so I don't expect a huge group, but I > have at least two of my friends who are in. Are there any kinds of > materials I could get from the LLG? My budget is very tight, as well > as the school's. Absolutely. I'm on the LLG and I'll bring it up with them. > Besides my interest in learning it for a linguistic and intellectual > adventure, I am interested in Lojban as an international language. > Ever since I heard about Lojban's incredible properties, I have been > promoting it. I am also fascinated by Lojban's potential as a > computer language, although I don't know enough about computer science > to do research into it. It has no serious potential as a programming language. It does have great potential for a human-computer interlingua for disambiguation of natural language. > On a non-Lojbanic note, I found your web page while surfing for Lojban > stuff. We seem to be very much alike. I am also an ex-christian > enlightened by reason. It is certainly comforting to know that others > can escape the type of brainwashing that religion creates. Thanks for letting me know about this! I love to hear positive feedback about the site. Please let me know of any more ways I can help or any other questions I can answer! -epkat