From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri May 25 10:38:19 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 25 May 2007 10:38:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hrdk2-0004yy-GU for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 10:38:18 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hrdk1-0004yr-RC for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 10:38:18 -0700 Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 10:38:17 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: the first 117 words Message-ID: <20070525173817.GG7871@digitalkingdom.org> References: <134107.69107.qm@web88015.mail.re2.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <134107.69107.qm@web88015.mail.re2.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 4673 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 10:21:13AM -0700, ANDREW PIEKARSKI wrote: > Wouldn't it be possible for some of our academic lojbanists to > make contact with counterparts in Arab and Indian universities in > order to introduce them to lojban? This is a wonderful product - > why not promote it? The only way to ensure lojban is 'culturally > neutral' is to get non-Europeans involved in it. I think it's a lovely idea, but I'm not one of those people (academic lojbanists) and have no idea who is. If you can find them and get them to work on this, that would be *lovely*. I think you may have erroneous beliefs about how organized the Lojban community is, and how much influence the needs of Lojban have over any of the people in it. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/