From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed May 04 12:35:49 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 04 May 2005 12:35:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DTPen-0003ow-4I for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Wed, 04 May 2005 12:35:41 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DTPen-0003op-21 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 04 May 2005 12:35:41 -0700 Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 12:35:41 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: longest works in conlangs Message-ID: <20050504193541.GA7298@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <67.4439b274.2fa9ef92@wmconnect.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <67.4439b274.2fa9ef92@wmconnect.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 9920 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 Wed, May 04, 2005 at 05:27:46AM -0400, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote: > In a message dated 5/4/2005 5:22:04 AM Eastern Standard Time, > Robin via ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes: > > > > Anyone know what the longest work in Klingon is? Or Esperanto? > > Esperanto has translations (and originals) of thousands of works, > as long as any natural language work. "as long as any natural language work" makes a pretty poor goal. Perry Rhodan is the longest natural language work I'm aware of, and I'm not likely to get anywhere near that, no matter what I do. > Klingon has no long native works, although translations exist of > the Gilgamesh epic and two works by Shakespeare: Hamlet and Much > ado about nothing. > > It's interesting that Lojban beats Klingon by a mile in this > regard, as I believe that Klingon has many more fluent speakers > than Lojban. Dosen't surprise me in the slightest. The problem is people's loose usage of the word "fluent". Klingon's vocabulary is *incredibly* poor. Much worse than Lojban's. I've heard of at least one parent(s) who tried to raise their kids speaking Kling but failed/gave up because there were just too many things they couldn't talk about. -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/