From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Jun 12 10:28:45 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:28:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FpqDV-0001ZJ-OZ for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:28:45 -0700 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.231]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FpqDR-0001ZB-Bi for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:28:45 -0700 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i5so1357715wra for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:28:40 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=eVDzsJzSk8UpkEN5eEVR6cNOVrU1ipcHsJ6CUSFsYax/x4BNoVnyZRuUIWqcAA3QMYSBRROpZNQUrMfVH3SNbHttJRdvEkrmdKZ5JVsllLLX9fCHDzGLCu1lpduJ0ZUQnCZaeVNsvCk7MMgCBVeceNeYEaD0WkXPhMFRwZ62OmQ= Received: by 10.65.52.19 with SMTP id e19mr419744qbk; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:28:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.216.17 with HTTP; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:28:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:28:39 -0400 From: "Matt Arnold" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: coi terdi In-Reply-To: <448c7d03.0257091b.6491.ffffea1b@mx.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <448c7d03.0257091b.6491.ffffea1b@mx.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) X-archive-position: 3238 X-Approved-By: matt.mattarn@gmail.com 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 coi .teryret. A lot of us don't like our Lojbanized name (my given name is identical to yours) and so use assigned names. My motivations to learn Lojban are described here: http://www.nemorathwald.com/Why_Learning_Lojban.htm -epkat On 6/11/06, M@ wrote: > > > > > coi terdi > > > > Hello all, just felt like popping in an introducing myself. I've been > putzing around with lojban for about a month now, but I've not put in the > requisite time to learn the vocab yet. Hopefully joining this mailing list > will motivate me to fix that little problem. > > > > A little about me: I'm in school going for a CS degree, I'm into karate, > computers, playing around with gadgets and new things, and hopefully I'll > soon be bilingual. > > > > I've been wondering; what motivated all of you to learn lojban? I've been > trying to pressure my brother into it, but he's a bit lethargic. > > > > Oh, and another thing, what's the general culture like with respect to > assigning yourself a lojban name rather than simply translating over the > sounds of your given first name? > > > > --M@ (my usual email sig which I may habitually use) > > mu'o mi'e mat. (a lojban sig that I'll use if assigned names are faux pas) > > --teryret. (a lojban sig that I'll use if they're not)