From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Jul 31 08:04:16 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:04:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KOZhQ-0005DL-94 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:04:16 -0700 Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.198.251]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KOZhK-0005Bq-21 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:04:16 -0700 Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so516128rvf.46 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:04:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=p2au0P5nCfnfWObX7V7JcifFA9k/ANeAHIn6H5fWwSU=; b=fPwYBY3ClpzBQvLrIPbpL5KTZW5ZASArOJh+QPFPWAZFS/lBTS6lgu187AtHYo21l6 uynxQX+oXuQEeAB1zu+L5rE+7thjn90GICDozGd6ItZ7YdHEY4FNswvNx2CGaFLYjIcd vEUstdSmUglgUYOpxI6DQ9n+SrYul1Ke8RKn4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=W0U+QRMjTR8InZuHiW4nSLRUvS58Hn7g5OOco7vpIaGEKCfvtNzSEGf2d+LNywWaQB ooI8vnnictx9qCesdethp4KNyw5iXlFFTFRqGap3PREZZG02FrSlFsJqaoSfxD3AtmeP ENYbuHbbzMTboGq139jILdtiM50v5LGG5sQDY= Received: by 10.141.76.21 with SMTP id d21mr5341474rvl.242.1217516648873; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:04:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.153.20 with HTTP; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:04:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:04:08 -0400 From: "Matt Arnold" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: New Beginner In-Reply-To: <372959.20862.qm@web88004.mail.re2.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <372959.20862.qm@web88004.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 739 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: matt.mattarn@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:42 PM, A. PIEKARSKI wrote: > Matt, > I always thought that the planned translation of The Prophet would be > something like that. No, for a famous work translated into Lojban, we already have Alice for that. What I have in mind would be what Star Trek III is to the Klingon language and what Lord of the Rings is to Elvish. A dramatized look into the lives of fictional native speakers as they interact with English speakers. Since The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress does not actually quote Loglan words, no pre-existing work is likely to be that. > But I notice that all work on it seems to have ceased. > Am I wrong? Or maybe it's just there on the tiki waiting for others to join in > the translation effort. > mu'o mi'e andrus You're partially right in that I haven't worked on it for years, but partially wrong in that others have worked on it from time to time since then. -Eppcott > ----- Original Message ---- >> From: Matt Arnold >> To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org >> Cc: Lawrence John Rogers >> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 8:07:11 PM >> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: New Beginner >> >> Lawrence, >> >> you're so right. I hasten to add that there are many different >> purposes for Lojban, and attractions that are completely unrelated. >> But that one is a long-standing dream of mine, and I intend to achieve >> it! >> >> -Eppcott >> >> >> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Lawrence John Rogers wrote: >> > Sorry. Lobjan looks really neat, though. >> > You guys need some sort-of "National Epic" like Gilgamesh that will draw >> > people in with its exciting fiction. That's what got me into Okrand's >> > Atlantean and later Klingon. >> > No offense. Just a really good idea. >> >> >> >> Erm. You seem to have found the wrong mailing list; this is for >> >> Lojban, which is quite different. (same mail server, though, >> >> because we're helpful like that) >> >> -Robin >> >> -- >> >> Lojban Reason #17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo >> >> Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ >> >> http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > >