From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Jul 23 08:16:22 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:16:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MU01u-0003uo-BR for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:16:22 -0700 Received: from sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no ([129.241.210.67]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MU01q-0003ue-Ay for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:16:22 -0700 Received: from hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (unknown [IPv6:2001:700:300:2000:2a0:c9ff:feab:76e2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 248CB94DA3 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:02:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (8.13.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id n6NE2vEX003169 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:02:57 +0200 Received: (from arj@localhost) by hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id n6NE2vPd003168 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:02:57 +0200 Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:02:57 +0200 From: Arnt Richard Johansen To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Using lojban in SF Message-ID: <20090723140257.GA2561@nvg.org> References: <7177e42e0907221528q5b1de353i99bb3e6d4158671e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7177e42e0907221528q5b1de353i99bb3e6d4158671e@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-NVG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-NVG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: arj@nvg.ntnu.no X-archive-position: 1949 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: arj@nvg.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 06:28:54PM -0400, DataPacRat wrote: > 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? I would suggest something like this: "doi skami .i gau ko gusni .i gau ko kalri" The advantages of this is that it more closely maps the stereotypical ellipticalness of the vocal commands given in space opera ("Computer! Lights! Open!"), and it's close to the way Lojban is used as a human-computer interface today. -- Arnt Richard Johansen http://arj.nvg.org/ Public Notice as Required by Law: Any Use of This Product, in Any Manner Whatsoever, Will Increase the Amount of Disorder in the Universe. Although No Liability Is Implied Herein, the Consumer Is Warned That This Process Will Ultimately Lead to the Heat Death of the Universe. --Susan Hewitt and Edward Subitzky