From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Nov 27 19:49:44 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:49:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gotya-0000vS-HO for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:49:44 -0800 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.173]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GotyV-0000vA-MK for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:49:44 -0800 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m3so1216933uge for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:49:38 -0800 (PST) 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=CoeSX0p7V7bV10WfEJCw5rYrMKkS8it5TNzxHB0XiXfKqVUEZni35Ci+N999f9KuAsWQ3nEDqr94NxdAjpNwLLCGqCJf4X29QT2CjMjurAynvRZ0DyFNDS2qlZd2gacU7DXf7Kza9q4ACwSnYLOFS6xWIUVfhLDCxxpjpr5j060= Received: by 10.78.128.15 with SMTP id a15mr478333hud.1164685777990; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:49:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.144.3 with HTTP; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:49:37 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:49:37 -0500 From: "Matt Arnold" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban mentioned in my book In-Reply-To: <456BA277.1050308@hypermetrics.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <456BA277.1050308@hypermetrics.com> X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) X-archive-position: 3716 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 Long time no see, Hal. Thanks for doing that! I'll bet it will result in a new lojbanist or two. -Eppcott On 11/27/06, Hal Fulton wrote: > Hi all, > > For what it's worth, I am the author of a Ruby book. > See _The Ruby Way_ on Amazon or wherever. (Ruby is > one reason I don't have the time for Lojban that I'd > like.) > > I sprinkled quotations liberally throughout the book -- > ones that I considered apropos, either in a serious > or a tongue-in-cheek way. In fact, because the book is > so hierarchical, I often used them at section headings, > not just chapter headings. > > Anyway, Ch 4 is about internationalization and message > catalogs. Just before the message catalog piece, I used > this quote: > > "Lojban is culturally fully neutral. Its vocabulary was > built algorithmically using today's six most widely > spoken languages: Chinese, Hindi, English, Russian, > Spanish, and Arabic." > -- _What is Lojban?_, Nick Nicholas and John Cowan > > Just in case anyone cares. I hope it piques some > readers' interest... > > > Cheers, > Hal > > > >