From gregory.dyke@epfl.ch Mon Mar 22 07:30:43 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 22 Mar 2004 07:30:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from imap1.epfl.ch ([128.178.50.4]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5RNy-0006VM-Mv for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 07:30:42 -0800 Received: from imap.epfl.ch (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.epfl.ch (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HUZ00E7YHQ9RP@imap1.epfl.ch> for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 16:30:09 +0100 (MET) Received: from [128.178.164.48] by imap1.epfl.ch (mshttpd); Mon, 22 Mar 2004 16:30:09 +0100 Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 16:30:09 +0100 From: GREGORY DYKE Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: lojban qua lingua franca To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Message-id: <1652cd167c5a.167c5a1652cd@imap.epfl.ch> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-language: en Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline X-Accept-Language: en Priority: normal X-archive-position: 613 X-Approved-By: gregory.dyke@epfl.ch 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: gregory.dyke@epfl.ch Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners I'd say that lojban grammar is slightly more difficult to grasp than that of most other languages. But once grasped, most of it cant be learnt within a few days. Although there is no way of proving this at the moment, lojban vocabulary, for chinese-speaking people at any rate, has to be as easy or more easy than esperanto vocabulary... Greg -- e'osai ko sarji la lojban - www.lojban.org ----- Original Message ----- From: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com Date: Monday, March 22, 2004 2:38 pm Subject: [lojban-beginners] lojban qua lingua franca > In a message dated 2004-03-22 5:22:51 AM Eastern Standard Time, > ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes: > > > 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. > > everything i've heard makes me think that esperanto is very popular > in both > china and japan. there doesn't seem to be much baggage inhibiting > them. > > i found esperanto to be very easy. i find lojban to be very hard > to learn, > especially the vocabulary. my opinion is still that all language > groups will > find lojban equally DIFFICULT to learn. > stevo > > --part1_19f.221cf9ac.2d904662_boundary-- > > >