From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Oct 25 06:17:15 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:17:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Il2aI-0003zn-Lc for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:17:15 -0700 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.184]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Il2aE-0003zB-Gk for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:17:14 -0700 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b22so437004rvf for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:17:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=wwK77D1FkotkHAqXjTAZSra1Tf8vGha66mDCtmysEPY=; b=ZeYt3v75DaDu78f7Q6qghxkBxWHhkEId6ivCyUBjCWOg1R5+fG9VPBiWqlqO7olEall1k+GU/TXGPqT6vmfF7tLzaXBnYxrTywnmKNVrkO5NWwpMSF6rR+Sxf7WSGac/n6SzGVUx64H72cGrE+PmShqWakRTW8QOIVr9K6Y0JKs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=dsVt35UZYD01EpMLtEtjS0he9tskDIe2tgTmkM2r7ajY8r8SULh62ArDlkZEpzE98s5DDwRk6/vFaSA0epFd28CM24096vexcfRHLzI0iRg3ot7qdGbuTrBMUQ06ZCWspG+qOLShYAVbmE10uU7rHmukukuNEazAKRFjR02WVYM= Received: by 10.141.151.15 with SMTP id d15mr890558rvo.1193317800645; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:10:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.45.19 with HTTP; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:10:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:10:00 -0400 From: "Matt Arnold" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: common interests In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5606 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 On 10/25/07, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote: > In a message dated 10/25/2007 4:23:38 AM Central Daylight Time, > ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes: > > > Indeed, I suspect that this is one thing that has slowed the development > of a Lojban community - about the only thing we all have in common is an > interest in the language. Finding something to talk *about* has always > been a challenge. > > The early speakers of Modern Hebrew had something that they all shared > in common to talk about; we don't. > > lojbab > > > Some things that at least some Lojban speakers like to talk about are: other > languages (Klingon and Hebrew come to mind), technology, science, > mathematics. Very geeky stuff, and we love it. > > stevo This is true. Philosophy is also among them. Given that these are such jargon-laden areas, Jaden's plans to work on new vocabulary will greatly assist us. -Eppcott