From mikael@orcon.net.nz Fri Mar 26 20:11:50 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 26 Mar 2004 22:48:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp21.singnet.com.sg ([165.21.101.201]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B75Ak-0002yO-AS for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 20:11:50 -0800 Received: from Inbox ([203.126.1.52]) by smtp21.singnet.com.sg (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i2R4BYUD010632 for ; Sat, 27 Mar 2004 12:11:43 +0800 Message-Id: <200403270411.i2R4BYUD010632@smtp21.singnet.com.sg> From: "Michael Aldridge" To: Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: lojban qua lingua franca Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 12:14:46 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.1432.1 X-archive-position: 620 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org 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: mikael@orcon.net.nz Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Curiouser and curiouser said Explain to me slowly the difference between to grasp and to learn from the point of view of lojban grammar. -----Original Message----- From: "GREGORY DYKE" Sent: 3/22/04 11:30:09 PM To: "lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org" Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: lojban qua lingua franca 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. [Message truncated. Tap Edit->Mark for Download to get remaining portion.]