From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Sep 05 07:00:37 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 05 Sep 2005 07:00:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1ECHWW-0000fH-RF for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 07:00:36 -0700 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.204]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1ECHWR-0000f9-Ot for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 07:00:36 -0700 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x7so761871nzc for ; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 07:00:30 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=pX6PoEtpJ0KuWUEmJw1QDihi1dz00/gq6vhNN/xbz+ppw8uHS/qx9qPPt+Nkn7dnuR9qoNqGAXMAyF7sNF1IDxZaiBt7/KTGUGHkQRPI5uB4rVept3OaEYkX8j7UPKvI4AR/eKIy5L8bQQ5Ob9NLkpuEwPgY5nLkr4xAA0xNAb0= Received: by 10.36.20.7 with SMTP id 7mr4859777nzt; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 07:00:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.61.2 with HTTP; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 07:00:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 00:00:30 +1000 From: Naomi K To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] On Constructed Languages Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_9638_10784598.1125928830358" X-Spam-Score: -2.0 (--) X-archive-position: 1957 X-Approved-By: alien.juxtaposition@gmail.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: alien.juxtaposition@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners ------=_Part_9638_10784598.1125928830358 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Heyaz Excuse me if I sound n00bish but only since my learning of Lojban have I=20 taken notice of the wonderful world of contructed languages....Esperanto,= =20 Ido, Glosa, Novial etc........ I am frankly amazed at the amount of=20 languages; it really is fascinating, although I am not what I would conside= r=20 a 'hardcore' linguist or anything of the kind. What do you Lojbanists think= =20 of the other artificial languages? What made you get into Lojban, not the= =20 easier, more mainstream Esperanto? Do any of you speak in other constructed= =20 languages? I was impressed by the description of Lojban on Conlangs.... Designed by others as a continuation of Loglan, *Lojban * (its name is a contraction for "Logical Language" in Lojban) is the most= =20 professional and thought-provoking of the modern logical languages, with a= =20 fascinating methodology for deriving its root words from Arabic, Chinese,= =20 English, Hindi, Russian and Spanish. Extensive information is available=20 on-line. For the sheer joy of it, you should check out how Tolkien's Tengwa= r=20 alphabet can provide "a romantic orthography for Lojban". By the way, which mailing list (if any) is for miscellaneous, everyday-life= =20 kinda discussion? I would be interested in joining that too (although that= =20 would defeat the purpose of a Lojban mailing list in the first place, eh ;-= )=20 ) mi'e .nei,omis. ------=_Part_9638_10784598.1125928830358 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Heyaz
Excuse me if I sound n00bish but only since my learning of Lojban have I taken notice of the wonderful world of contructed languages....Esperanto, Ido, Glosa, Novial etc........ I am frankly amazed = at the amount of languages; it really is fascinating, although I am not what I would consider a 'hardcore' linguist or anything of the kind. What d= o you Lojbanists think of the other artificial languages? What made you get into Lojban, not the easier, more mainstream Esperanto? Do any of you speak in other constructed languages?

I was impressed by the description of Lojban on Conlangs....
Designed by others as a continuation = of Loglan, Lojban= (its name is a contraction for "Logical Language" in Lojban) is t= he most professional and thought-provoking of the modern logical languages, with a fascinating methodology for deriving its root words from Arabic, Chinese, English, Hindi, Russian and Spanish. Extensive information is available on-line. For the sheer joy of it, you should check out how Tolkien's Tengwar alphabet can provide "a romantic orthography for Lojban".

By the way, which mailing list (if any) is for miscellaneous, everyday-life kinda discussion? I would be interested in joining that too (although that would defeat the purpose of a Lojban mailing list in the first place, eh ;-) )

mi'e .nei,omis.
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