From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Sep 03 14:35:01 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 03 Sep 2005 14:35:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EBffB-0002mv-NL for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2005 14:35:01 -0700 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.193]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EBff5-0002mo-Nu for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2005 14:35:01 -0700 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i21so233238wra for ; Sat, 03 Sep 2005 14:34:54 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=DlEWZ3UneVbw2BiTD9cQLF64ljQ+5ifkEQ7zx1MK7nTMvl0kEPkR/O7kGIYs0Zrs+/opgCToJO6kIgb8ha7ErgiCa6X9Hm/cfzQObmxbtKY9VlC4Tpeztf6dyRIFrQgz1YWdQBp2WteyrSBu+yd1wzbxa/bCwITd23rVflJDrkM= Received: by 10.54.52.59 with SMTP id z59mr2892799wrz; Sat, 03 Sep 2005 14:34:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.140.6 with HTTP; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 14:34:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 17:34:54 -0400 From: Matt Arnold To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Newbie Intro In-Reply-To: <431A09AD.2000202@hypermetrics.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_3176_10586432.1125783294529" References: <431A09AD.2000202@hypermetrics.com> X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) X-archive-position: 1939 X-Approved-By: matt.mattarn@gmail.com X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: matt.mattarn@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners ------=_Part_3176_10586432.1125783294529 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline >=20 > I am 15, am from Australia, and > > am NOT a geek (*gasp* surprise!)...I consider myself to be a comfortabl= e > > black-box user with amateur HTML skills, but no further. > Haha... if you're into Lojban, I'm sorry, you're a geek. ;) >=20 I agree. Welcome to the noble fraternity of geeks (and sorority, let us not= =20 forget Nora K.B.). > Did anyone ever attempt to recuit their friends to Lojban? I sure tried, > > but they think that I'm wasting my time on it o_0...well, when Lojban > > becomes well-known in 50 years time, THAT will show them, alright :p >=20 I recruited three of my friends into this language. The kind of friends I= =20 have are very understanding of Lojban. > > I wonder when Lojban WILL become widespread.=20 >=20 Maybe it will become widespread someday, but I can't think of any reason wh= y=20 it would. I'll be happy if we create a giant virtual world in Second Life o= r=20 some other chat game, full of Lojban speakers. -epkat ------=_Part_3176_10586432.1125783294529 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline
I am 15, am = from Australia, and
> am NOT a geek (*gasp* surprise!)...I consider m= yself to be a comfortable
> black-box user with amateur HTML skills, but no further.
Haha..= . if you're into Lojban, I'm sorry, you're a geek.  ;)

I agree. Welcome to the noble fraternity of geeks (and sorority, let us not= forget Nora K.B.).

> Di= d anyone ever attempt to recuit their friends to Lojban? I sure tried,
> but they think that I'm wasting my time on it o_0...well, when Lojban<= br>> becomes well-known in 50 years time, THAT will show them, alright := p

I recruited three of my friends into this language. The kind of friends I h= ave are very understanding of Lojban.
 
> = I wonder when Lojban WILL become widespread.
 
Maybe it will become widespread someday, but I can't think of any reason why it would. I'll be happy if we create a giant virtual world in Second Life or some other chat game, full of Lojban speakers.
-epkat
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