From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jan 10 11:02:40 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:02:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1EwOlU-0007cy-Cx for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:02:40 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1EwOlT-0007cq-ON for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:02:40 -0800 Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:02:39 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: [lojban] The Lojban MOO now in beta. Message-ID: <20060110190239.GJ22473@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <20060110073354.GD22473@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <43C3C123.9050209@ropine.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43C3C123.9050209@ropine.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 2937 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 09:13:55AM -0500, Seth Gordon wrote: > Robin Lee Powell wrote: > >The Lojban MOO, aka samxarmuj, is now ready for people to > >actually use it. > > Cool! Congratulations! Two questions: > > (1) Will I commit a terrible faux pas if I create a character who > responds v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y to everyone else, because of all the > time I have to spend fumbling with the dictionary and jbofihe? No, go for it. Also, the MUD is multilingual, so you can use English as your interface if you like (which won't help if people are talking in Lojban, but still). > (2) Why is (for example) the "look" command "viska" rather than > "mi viska" or "ko viska"? Because the prompt is ".i gau mi > ". :-) "mi viska" is currently illegal, but I'm working on that. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/