From cr@cosmicray.co.uk Sun Aug 16 09:54:13 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-members); Sun, 16 Aug 2009 09:54:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mcizi-0003n0-7R for llg-members@lojban.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2009 09:54:13 -0700 Received: from [192.168.1.100] (82-71-48-121.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.71.48.121]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu0) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKuxg-1Mcizb0pIM-000RQh; Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:54:03 +0200 Message-ID: <4A8839AD.907@cosmicray.co.uk> Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:54:05 +0100 From: CosmicRay User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: llg-members@lojban.org Subject: [llg-members] Re: [cr@cosmicray.co.uk: [Fwd: Lojban Ideas]] References: <20090816032146.GC21886@mercury.ccil.org> <4A87F1A6.7080300@cosmicray.co.uk> <200908160853.09794.phma@phma.optus.nu> In-Reply-To: <200908160853.09794.phma@phma.optus.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+bWpIt387wJ0jLtFdzJSGVbwl9QhpjoJO3BSA EyUIf8uKMo5Q3fAAwBVbJtQn9PuVTNwhWtK32+13Ako6B9wG8G EsWEza7qU8tPpI+/+PlYQ== X-archive-position: 726 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: cr@cosmicray.co.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-members@lojban.org X-list: llg-members Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Sunday 16 August 2009 07:46:46 CosmicRay wrote: > >> Dear LLG Members, >> >> Firstly many heartfelt thanks for considering me for the LLG, it has >> come as a total surprise, but a pleasant one at that :-) >> > > fi'i do je'e do .i ki'e ro do >> By way of introduction, my name is Paul Swift, I was born and live >> in the UK, work as a software developer with a focus on LAMP web >> applications, and am fairly new to the Lojban language. >> > I had to think about the acronym. I've read a book called "Language > Acquisition Made Practical". :) I do LAMP websites (and some using PostgreSQL > instead), some of them multilingual, but none for LAMP. > Sorry, should have said, by LAMP I meant Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl or PHP. I haven't progressed to PostreSQL yet, but as MySQL is starting to catch up with the more serious relational DB engines I'm more tempted to stay with it - perhaps this is a conversation for another time though :-) > mi tirna po'o se verclibau lo spano .i mi ca cmima le xispo malsi gi'e tavla > se bangu lo spano > I think I understand that, congratulations. I think it's the best of the natural languages too; a feature it shares with Lojban is you can see any word and know how it's pronounced and vice-versa. It's be good if there were more opportunities to use it daily (not so easy in the UK where learning other languages is almost seen as redundant), whereas with Lojban I've recruited five colleagues to learn it with me surprisingly easily. kozmikreis