From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Apr 28 11:38:13 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 28 Apr 2005 11:38:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DRDtl-0004jh-NB for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 11:38:05 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DRDtl-0004ja-LA for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 11:38:05 -0700 Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 11:38:05 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Penguicon Lojban Presentation Message-ID: <20050428183805.GB29072@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20050428104352.88889.qmail@web32102.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200504281336.j3SDaCTd006145@mole.e-mol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200504281336.j3SDaCTd006145@mole.e-mol.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 9888 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 09:36:12AM -0400, Matt Arnold wrote: > Sunday, April 24 I gave a presentation about Lojban to a packed > room at Penguicon 3.0, a combination science fiction convention > and open source software expo. I broke the ice by performing "I'm > A Little Teapot" in Lojban (with the motions). I explained how > Lojban relates to Robert Heinlein, Robert Anton Wilson and Yoda, > even remotely and really stretching it. I mentioned the history, > the YACC grammar, and the variety of motivations to learn Lojban. > Other than the standard things like phonetics and grammar (for > which I used the analogy of a space station), I covered swearing > and insults in Lojban, explained how Supermemo works, and showed > the resources and software that are available on the web. At least > three people are interested in starting a monthly Lojban class. Go you! Sounds very cool. -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/