From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Apr 20 11:44:45 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:44:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hey68-0000zy-E5 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:44:44 -0700 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.229]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hey63-0000zq-Tg for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:44:44 -0700 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i30so1817253wxd for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:44:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=Whiv52L1U/l+dDOlKTY4RLo33FKNQcz8TAaGVBJnVaxjRua1tYOspq1N6JUTJKfzryRRLo6DLs16cNOoTswHgEBznLRC+9MzgmdZN+dCcg64hvcGKo7FXpkqv5CeKdZyxXlcbpS0ADDKFfg3AJgLmsihvCFnxtvg6Pu5kF5LGJA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=Zdf3iTND5rplwbqFZo8sc7soY83gFORy74IoLMXBh4Lq03eAU5juNwhFrc8ASd38IF0iufMyOUF7553hoveK0+QIw7xSBQqEesxeYp3TSmisK0mianDvJy12wy3W/djP5WMiUgsngrgCuVn/1ZQZhzqdS2k8WoXtYvhfi5S0/8o= Received: by 10.70.111.2 with SMTP id j2mr5993529wxc.1177094678251; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:44:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.20.19 with HTTP; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:44:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:44:38 +0100 From: "james riley" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Constructive comments requested. In-Reply-To: <1189A858F8918F43BE3F9C7603C73FB4031E7CB7@0456-its-exmp01.us.saic.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_40221_3189861.1177094678171" References: <833946.74918.qm@web88001.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <1189A858F8918F43BE3F9C7603C73FB4031E7CB7@0456-its-exmp01.us.saic.com> X-Spam-Score: -2.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: -19 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-archive-position: 4339 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jimr1603@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners ------=_Part_40221_3189861.1177094678171 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Perhaps something younger would be nice to see around. My flatmate learns French and owns some children's books in French. An example is the hungry caterpillar. mu'o mi'e cmacis. On 20/04/07, Turniansky, Michael wrote: > > Gee, *I* read Alice in Wonderland as a child. It was made for > children. It's full of adventure. It made me wonder what was coming > next. How is not a children's book? (And for the record, is much > shorter then Harry Potter, Artemis, Fowler, etc. that Colin seems to > prefer). > > --gejyspa > > Andrew: > > First of all, let's start with what we agree on. We need childrens > books for people to start with, and Alice in Wonderland hardly > qualifies. > > Colin: > > Include me out. Apart from attracting initial interest, I think what's > lacking is the equivalent of children's books. Not complex things like > "Alice", or intense things like "The Red Mask", but children's adventure > and > action stories. Direct, simple, full of things happening that make you > want > to know what's coming next. > > "Harry Potter", "Guards! Guards!" or "Artemis Fowl", for example, > although > they are all too long. > > > > > > ------=_Part_40221_3189861.1177094678171 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Perhaps something younger would be nice to see around. My flatmate learns French and owns some children's books in French. An example is the hungry caterpillar.

mu'o mi'e cmacis.

On 20/04/07, Turniansky, Michael <MICHAEL.A.TURNIANSKY@saic.com> wrote:
  Gee, *I* read Alice in Wonderland as a child.  It was made for
children.  It's full of adventure.  It made me wonder what was coming
next.  How is not a children's book?  (And for the record, is much
shorter then Harry Potter, Artemis, Fowler, etc. that Colin seems to
prefer).

             --gejyspa

Andrew:

First of all, let's start with what we agree on.  We need childrens
books for people to start with, and Alice in Wonderland hardly
qualifies.

Colin:

Include me out.  Apart from attracting initial interest, I think what's
lacking is the equivalent of children's books.  Not complex things like
"Alice", or intense things like "The Red Mask", but children's adventure
and
action stories.  Direct, simple, full of things happening that make you
want
to know what's coming next.

"Harry Potter", "Guards! Guards!" or "Artemis Fowl", for example,
although
they are all too long.






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