From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Sep 16 05:36:46 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 05:36:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EGFSQ-0001x6-Cb for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 05:36:46 -0700 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.202]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EGFSO-0001wy-4Q for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 05:36:46 -0700 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id n29so158970nzf for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 05:36:39 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=KMtSbXQutl3ongFbYTjsFKClIGqu/M2ua3cYnOq+vpWuF6Xsf9FMhR2umtPDOQ3gBj7Af+CwbJ6k5alumflvrcwC8/HH0Uw3G8Vxw8FXh9v5WgxOsdheobbAlyxPxJIhPE8UHLpjm+y9qV2QFMo7aglhJNBAlD6EgM2nWHYbLzc= Received: by 10.36.250.16 with SMTP id x16mr71490nzh; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 05:36:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.222.64 with HTTP; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 05:36:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2d3df92a050916053675d39755@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:36:39 +0200 From: HeliodoR To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Newbie Intro In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_16167_13604801.1126874199247" References: <431A09AD.2000202@hypermetrics.com> <535730ee05091421562c1d0060@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-archive-position: 2089 X-Approved-By: exitconsole@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: exitconsole@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners ------=_Part_16167_13604801.1126874199247 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline > Should it be strictly spoken in Lojban?=20 Mostly Lojban, though meta-discussion about the language should pass in=20 English. > Would you like beginner lessons? Sure, everything from Lesson 3 in Lojban for Beginners. In English. ;) Or specific articlets pointing out important parts of each topic. "When to= =20 use {lo} instead of {le}?", for example. OR even something similar to lojban-valsi: learn a word a day! > Would you like world news headlines in Lojban? Yep. Double usefulness. .u'i > Would you like readings from Alice in Wonderland, The Prophet, or other= =20 texts?=20 Um... I'd go for 'other texts', maybe poems, but I must think the majority= =20 of people would disagree. And it requires a lot of work, in addition. > What would get you to subscribe? Little ideas on the content: - radio-series 'played' in the logical language; like 2 episodes a week. - getting to know other languages. People who know Lojban are probably=20 interested in languages, mostly AL's. Oh, and if Lojban, make the pronounciation really clear, no blurring sounds= =20 as in Glico or such. And that logo by Christopher is excellent, only the sight of a red=20 lightning is a bit unnatural, but a simple colour change would solve the problem. mi'e xiliodor. ------=_Part_16167_13604801.1126874199247 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline
> Should it be strictly spoken in Lojban?
Mostly Lojban, though meta-discussion about the language should p= ass in English.
 
> Would you like beginner lessons?
Sure, everything from Lesson 3 in Lojban for Beginners. In Englis= h. ;)
Or specific articlets pointing out important parts of e= ach topic. "When to use {lo}
instead of {le}?", for example.
OR even something similar to lojban-valsi: learn a word a day!
 
> Would you like world news headlines in Lojban?
Yep. Double usefulness. .u'i
 
> Would you like readings from Alice in Wonderland, The Prophet, or= other texts?
Um... I'd go for 'other texts', maybe poems, but I m= ust think the majority of people
would disagree. And it requires a lot of work, in addition.
 
> What would get you to subscribe?
Little ideas on the content:<= /div>
- radio-series 'played' in the logical language; like 2 episodes a wee= k.
- getting to know other languages. People who know Lojban are probably= interested
in languages, mostly AL's.
Oh, and if Lojban, make the pronounciation really clear, no = blurring sounds as in
Glico or such.
 
And that logo by Christopher is excellent, only the sight of a red lig= htning is a bit
unnatural, but a simple colour change would solve the problem.
 
mi'e xiliodor.
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