From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jan 17 21:12:40 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:12:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H7PZm-0005Sb-5f for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:12:40 -0800 Received: from mail.bcpl.net ([204.255.212.10]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H7PZg-0005SU-FD for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:12:37 -0800 Received: from webmail.bcpl.net (webmail.bcpl.net [204.255.212.24]) by mail.bcpl.net (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id l0I5CTkM002852 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:12:29 -0500 (EST) X-WebMail-UserID: turnip Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:12:29 -0500 From: turnip To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00002700 Subject: [lojban-beginners] My increasing comfort with lojban. Message-ID: <45CA369B@webmail.bcpl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -1.7 X-Spam-Score-Int: -16 X-Spam-Bar: - X-archive-position: 3897 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: turnip@bcpl.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners I'm bringing more lojban into my life, and finding that I can say lots of things without looking anything up, despite the fact that I probably only have memorized about 50-60 gismu (haven't actively counted it up). I've even been using lojban with my dog: ko klama ti, ko klama tu (or ko klama fi mi), ko stali, ko zuste. On the radio today, I heard an interviewer ask (I think in reference to fighting terrorism), "Will you continue to use the same tools?" I immediately said, "xu do baca'o pilno la'edi'u" without hesitation. I also said to my son yesterday, when trying to remember a conversational thread "mi djuno le du'u mi'o pu na tavla fi la lojban" (I know, I probably should have said "mi djuno le du'u mi'o pu casnu na'ebo la lojban" but I didn't know casnu (I remembered there was some brivla for "discuss", but didn't know what it was), and the sumti negation didn't occur to me until later). But still, I am proud of myself. --gejyspa