From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jan 17 22:39:55 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:39:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H7QwE-0006yy-DR for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:39:54 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H7QwA-0006yq-Sr for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:39:52 -0800 Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:39:50 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: My increasing comfort with lojban. Message-ID: <20070118063950.GA21920@digitalkingdom.org> References: <45CA369B@webmail.bcpl.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45CA369B@webmail.bcpl.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 3898 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 Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 12:12:29AM -0500, turnip wrote: > 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. You should be! I've fallen out of the habit of doing that sort of thing, and I can't do it anymore for the most part. It's a very cool thing. -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/