From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jul 22 15:54:05 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:54:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MTkhI-0003QX-PZ for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:54:04 -0700 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.122]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MTkhC-0003OR-3q for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:54:03 -0700 Received: from chausie ([71.75.215.96]) by cdptpa-omta04.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090722225351013.GQTV29458@cdptpa-omta04.mail.rr.com> for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:53:51 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chausie (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18B9B4035 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:53:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Using lojban in SF Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:53:45 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) References: <7177e42e0907221528q5b1de353i99bb3e6d4158671e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7177e42e0907221528q5b1de353i99bb3e6d4158671e@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200907221853.47568.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-archive-position: 1944 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wednesday 22 July 2009 18:28:54 DataPacRat wrote: > I'm part of an online writing group, and I'm thinking about having a > certain character give verbal commands to a certain group of computers > in something like Lojban. It's not a major plot-point, so I'm hoping > that once I get the basic structure, I can take just a few seconds to > check an English/Lojban dictionary for any new words... but it /would/ > be nice if I was using /real/ Lojban. (I'm also planning on using more > English-like punctuation and capitalization, for reader > comprehension.) > > For example, to tell a computer to turn on the lights and open > something, would "Doi, Skami. I ko gusni. I ko kalri.", with the > computer responding "Viho.", be reasonably close to Lojban? It is Lojban, but it's telling the computer to be light and to be open. > In a similar vein, this character wears a 'swarm cloak' made up of > many tiny robots. For 'hey, swarmcloak, add a kilt', how close is > "Doi, Girkosta. I ko fi skaci."; and for 'hey, swarmcloak, light up > the direction I'm looking at', "Doi, Girkosta. I ko gusni farcta mi."? I'd say "ko te fargusni lo selcta be mi" or something like that. Pierre