Received: from mail-ob0-f191.google.com ([209.85.214.191]:59894) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UFMBg-0002ks-0N; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:12:20 -0700 Received: by mail-ob0-f191.google.com with SMTP id dn14sf1858217obc.28 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:11:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=20120806; h=x-received:x-beenthere:x-received:received-spf:mime-version :x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :x-original-sender:x-original-authentication-results:reply-to :precedence:mailing-list:list-id:x-google-group-id:list-post :list-help:list-archive:sender:list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe :content-type; bh=mAcpzzVZumOBtwwE89hA2O5kOFlSkB9dkpcHgb4Xm+0=; b=NckLO5MFJSTMAlgujQRHvA38AvaTcpcTpQuxIXBQQkvA0+0idAheZO4NB34WbTnu9L d1UkxVl7ACnQ/pNAp6BEq1RXy13Yvsxii3edKCtc1HVeciSiLvwNiiEkP6G7aV73Wzxf 1kVn/MTU+kfzwYg6lyyDPpGlIFQ/dv9nCbXji17BVImDQ4SwrJ97KehDX3Rj7XrzxOqm XbnkcbL2x3q+OThutM4KPVR9Ksnmdbyy/FuOWi5p73kefNXlEffU9J7+1y/phJSuAAzL ptWsW7vzC8YfhIKiglf9g8qpOFvCyn2IQs1EsnwnNAPd2KWedD09HCq2fo1RoJCX7t3R ek9A== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:x-beenthere:x-received:received-spf:mime-version :x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :x-original-sender:x-original-authentication-results:reply-to :precedence:mailing-list:list-id:x-google-group-id:list-post :list-help:list-archive:sender:list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe :content-type; bh=mAcpzzVZumOBtwwE89hA2O5kOFlSkB9dkpcHgb4Xm+0=; b=pRIRez2pfY8iA9zekCHVh0m9xw6S47Eyh5DCmPn3hPaQMMOW6zvs+LEmvqc4Nnoj9+ wygeh5mz+QhD4wKrvPSObC0eH9b85pzkknz/fnQnsBYPGkCe5kPTv4TxsydkCckX0Q+c gN6n1jUXHuS59NtB/CoYdIUFguvnFwcpATBgPA3vG7F5MQR10ZkLCRT7p0URZMI4IEjn 3UWBlVgWRalJPPFE0Ii8RsOR/qwrNKA03XllFU9mIL3DxU79Q83sdkRSj4hcCmmsKy6F 0tBnUfu8QVS/83HQesV2x9/VVL1kYIRq/379/cL8S/2q/LPhZ5UhE7mbSsbjhZqnm267 rJDg== X-Received: by 10.49.106.131 with SMTP id gu3mr1045876qeb.36.1363083116865; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:11:56 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.49.62.230 with SMTP id b6ls1283190qes.28.gmail; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:11:55 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.224.17.140 with SMTP id s12mr10896478qaa.3.1363083115514; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:11:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-qe0-f54.google.com (mail-qe0-f54.google.com [209.85.128.54]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fo9si1383184qcb.0.2013.03.12.03.11.55 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:11:55 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of jimr1603@gmail.com designates 209.85.128.54 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.128.54; Received: by mail-qe0-f54.google.com with SMTP id i11so2869236qej.27 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:11:55 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.224.209.7 with SMTP id ge7mr21568674qab.10.1363083115401; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:11:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.85.199 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:11:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20130311231600.GV18336@stodi.digitalkingdom.org> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:11:55 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [lojban] jbopatfu needs help. From: james riley To: lojban@googlegroups.com X-Original-Sender: jimr1603@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of jimr1603@gmail.com designates 209.85.128.54 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=jimr1603@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 1004133512417 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Spam-Score: -0.1 (/) X-Spam_score: -0.1 X-Spam_score_int: 0 X-Spam_bar: / ISTR that espeak has a (underdeveloped) Lojban config. Though espeak English is mildly painful to listen to. If there's any TTS wizards, I'd point them at that FOSS project that possibly needs some help. FWIW, I'll hang out on the IRC a bit more at work. But we do have a word for Lojbanists who have taken time out from the language to do a PhD. mi'e cmacis. On 12 March 2013 09:45, MorphemeAddict wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Robin Lee Powell > wrote: >> >> tl;dr: jbopatfu is stressed; skip down to the bullet points to see >> how you can help. >> >> For those of you who don't know: I'm raising twin daughters, and I >> am speaking Lojban to them almost exclusively (no-one else is). >> >> In the course of raising the jbocifnu, recently I feel like there's >> this barrier between me and the next level of fluency, and the only >> thing I can think of to fix it is listening. >> >> In particular: it's too fucknig hard for me to learn words. >> While it's not as easy as it was when I was a kid, I still can pick >> up words very easily in English, Lojban is *much* harder. >> The place structures only explains a small part of that. >> >> The (comparatively) great effort involved in speaking Lojban and >> learning vocab is starting to upset me; I expected to be past that >> by now. >> >> On top of that, my life has become *very* overwhelmingly busy; it's >> been hard lately to just be calm about life in general. >> >> It's very easy for me to look at my life and go "What would give me >> a bunch more time?" and come back with "not speaking Lojban to my >> children", but I don't want to go that route. >> >> So, here's some things that might maybe help. They're not >> especially reasonble, but quite frankly, I feel like the community >> owes me at this point. >> >> 0. Be *gentle*. I need people to gently, softly cajole me an a >> lot of this stuff. That means even though I asked you to bug me to >> do X, I'm usually going to say no. Be nice about it. >> >> 1. I want to hear more of the language. I think *listening* might >> help me level up. Make or find voice recordings. Make it very very >> easy for me by sending me simple links to MP3s (dropbox.com is good >> for hosting this sort of thing, by the way) of Lojban speaking that >> doesn't obviously suck; it doesn't have to be great, but it should >> be longer than 5 minutes, please. Collecting a bunch of short bits >> together would be fine. >> >> 2. I've fallen out of the habit of being involved in Lojban stuff, >> and especially chat on a regular basis. Come find me in #lojban and >> try to engage me in conversation. >> >> 3. Find me in #lojban and see if I'll voice chat. If we do, be >> prepared for me to go at my own pace. Constantly repeating is very >> tiring. >> >> Feel free to make suggestions as to how you can help. > > > Is there a text-to-speech program for Lojban? It would allow you to listen > to stuff that is otherwise only in text form. > > stevo >> >> >> Thanks. >> >> -Robin >> >> -- >> http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. >> .i ko na cpedu lo nu stidi vau loi jbopre .i danfu lu na go'i li'u .e >> lu go'i li'u .i ji'a go'i lu na'e go'i li'u .e lu go'i na'i li'u .e >> lu no'e go'i li'u .e lu to'e go'i li'u .e lu lo mamta be do cu sofybakni >> li'u >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "lojban" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "lojban" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. 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