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The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 10:06:38AM -0600, Jonathan Jones wrote: > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:57 AM, Robin Lee Powell < > rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote: > > > > > I have recently had the pleasure to witness the birth of my two > > amazing girl infants. > > > > Congratulations! > > > > The mother is permitting me (it was a requirement of my helping > > her have kids, actually) to natter at them in Lojban, with the > > intention of them learning it as a language in the usual way > > (i.e. by having it around, rather than by explicit teaching). > > This will be a bit wonky as I'm the only person in the household > > who speaks it, but it'll be interesting, at least. > > > > I'm sorry, the wording is a bit unclear. Is she requiring you, or > are you requiring her to let you, natter in Lojban? [...] Content analysis details: (0.1 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid 0.0 T_DKIM_INVALID DKIM-Signature header exists but is not valid On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 10:06:38AM -0600, Jonathan Jones wrote: > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:57 AM, Robin Lee Powell < > rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote: > > > > > I have recently had the pleasure to witness the birth of my two > > amazing girl infants. > > > > Congratulations! > > > > The mother is permitting me (it was a requirement of my helping > > her have kids, actually) to natter at them in Lojban, with the > > intention of them learning it as a language in the usual way > > (i.e. by having it around, rather than by explicit teaching). > > This will be a bit wonky as I'm the only person in the household > > who speaks it, but it'll be interesting, at least. > > > > I'm sorry, the wording is a bit unclear. Is she requiring you, or > are you requiring her to let you, natter in Lojban? The latter. She thinks it's pretty silly. :) > > Now, having said that, while I'm pretty good with the language, I > > have the same sorts of problems as everybody else: I get stuck > > saying things because I don't have the vocabulary or because of lack > > of idiom. > > > > This sort of thing takes a fair bit of effort to overcome (I've been > > known to spend multiple hours creating a new word, for example), and > > I don't have a lot of spare effort available, because, as previously > > mentioned, I'm *raising infant twins*. This limits my available > > time. Pretty extremely. > > > > It is likely that the Lojban community has some pretty strong > > interest in helping out with this project. :) > > > > So, if you'd like to help, here's what I'd like: > > > > 1. An indication here if you'd be willing to help with vocab/idiom > > issues. My ideal here would be that I send a post here (perhaps > > with "jboverba" in the subject always?) with "I tried to say "why is > > your lip quivering?" today and failed" or so, and y'all figure it > > out, and I ignore the thread, and then someone emails me directly > > with the result. Knowing that there's a pool of people willing to > > help there would be lovely. > > > > Sounds good to me. I volunteer to be email-you-guy. Lovely. -Robin -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. 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