From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue May 03 12:50:48 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 03 May 2005 12:50:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DT3Pl-0004cS-CT for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 03 May 2005 12:50:41 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DT3Pl-0004cL-AK for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 03 May 2005 12:50:41 -0700 Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 12:50:41 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: LNC now longest Lojban work. Message-ID: <20050503195041.GG29072@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20050503192234.GD29072@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <925d17560505031237319666ac@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <925d17560505031237319666ac@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 9913 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 Tue, May 03, 2005 at 04:37:39PM -0300, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > On 5/3/05, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > "la nicte cadzu", the horror story I've been writing, is now the > > longest Lojban work ever, at just over 32, 000 words. > > > > You can read it at > > > > http://www.teddyb.org/~rlpowell/hobbies/lojban/palm/la%20nicte%20cadzu/index.html > > > > The next closest contenders are "la alis. cizra je cinri zukte > > vi le selmacygu'e" at about 31, 100 words, and the text for "la > > nuntalyli'u" (the Colossal Caves Adventure game) at about 8, 600 > > words. > > There's also certain copyright violating translation that must be > around those figures. Really? Can you get an exact number? Not that I support such a thing, but I'm curious. > > So, what's my next target? :-) > > If I were to translate Through the Looking Glass, would that be > added to the adventures, or would it have to count as a separate > work? :) I'd consider that a single work for this purpose, and I hope you will be equally generous when I extend LNC into multiple books. :-) > > Anyone know what the longest work in Klingon is? Or Esperanto? > > The Bible maybe? Has the bible been done in Klingon? The longest Amazon has is Hamlet. FWIW, the bible I got from gutenberg.net is ~100, 000 words. Esperanto apparently has a 450 page book (http://www.esperanto.ie/english/zaft/zaft(19).htm), but I have no idea how to translate arbitrary book sizes in to word counts. I vaguely remember than 250 words per page is used as a rule of thumb, in which case I've got a long way to go, because that's 112, 500 words. > > OBWarning: > > > > Please bear in mind that in American movie terms, LNC is without > > question rated NC 17 for graphic violence, mature themes, and > > graphic sexuality, if not actually rated X (I'm currently 1, 000 > > words into a sex scene). (For non-americans, see > > http://excaliburfilms.com/movieratings_pop.htm) Minors are > > *not* invited to read LNC. > > That's an excellent way of enticing minors to read something, pity > there are none around to read it :) I've met at least two minors (defined in my jurisdiction as under 18 years of age) on #lojban, actually, so I think you're mistaken there. -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/