From rslau@mindspring.com Sun Mar 21 10:38:51 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 21 Mar 2004 10:38:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp10.atl.mindspring.net ([207.69.200.246]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B57qV-00076p-Bh for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 10:38:51 -0800 Received: from user-38ld0j9.dialup.mindspring.com ([209.86.130.105] helo=sodor.mindspring.com) by smtp10.atl.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1B57qT-0002ii-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:38:49 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sodor.mindspring.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F7A241F4 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:38:36 -0500 (EST) To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Hello from Hungary! In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 21 Mar 2004 14:33:44 +0800." <200403210633.i2L6XchI011484@smtp14.singnet.com.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:38:36 -0500 From: Bob Slaughter Message-Id: <20040321183836.7F7A241F4@sodor.mindspring.com> X-archive-position: 611 X-Approved-By: rslau@mindspring.com X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: rslau@mindspring.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners > What is an auxiliary language For me at least, it means "a created language used in the context of a mutual secondary language." Some languages, like Esperanto and Interlingua, were designed with this as a primary feature. Others, like Lojban, have this as a secondary feature. Not that Lojban is poor at this; I find that it, unlike Esperanto, is at least equally difficult to learn for native speakers of all major language families. Esperanto is great if you're a native speaker of Indo-European languages, but carries a lot of baggage that inhibits native speakers of languages like Swahili, Japanese, and Chinese. The only major advantage Esperanto has over native IE languages (and it is a *major* advabtage) is that it is uniformly regular in form. What I love about Lojban is that it's contruction is *so* unusual, that it does force me to reconsider how I want to express things. -- Bob Slaughter, rslau@mindspring.com http://www.mindspring.com/~rslau/ North Georgia Modurail: http://www.mindspring.com/~rslau/ngm/ In which language of the world does the word 'taxi' mean "I cannot drive"? e'osai ko sarji la lojban fo lonu pilno -- http://www.lojban.org/