From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Sep 02 14:33:21 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:33:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EBJ9s-00017p-Dy for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:33:12 -0700 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.196]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EBJ9q-00017h-BF for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:33:12 -0700 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x7so492943nzc for ; Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:33:09 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ojCSILQMi9LVNEb0ZTqrlxcQOrQacJf62B8tSj+p1nbMtjO11Kc/+Igp3uWq+hcTstMznLezYTKWt7CWJtc1OSY/PXe9BP8j2VEpgwRZVuIAgjSUci5MmrupZlLWhstLYP1hhSUOseLOBStMOlxjwBSdtkxLWkQMTRAT4qa1fkU= Received: by 10.36.24.18 with SMTP id 18mr2840088nzx; Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:33:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.67.6 with HTTP; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 14:33:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <737b61f30509021433368968e1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 16:33:09 -0500 From: Chris Capel To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: lojban as an auxiliary language In-Reply-To: <737b61f305090214262772927d@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline References: <737b61f305090214262772927d@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) X-archive-position: 10479 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: pdf23ds@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On 9/2/05, Chris Capel wrote: > would the effort spent learning lojban be worth the ability to > communicate at all with Lojban-and-English-speakers before learning > English well enough to really communicate? I should clarify. I mean "to communicate with any non-lojbanist English speaker". Chris Capel -- "What is it like to be a bat? What is it like to bat a bee? What is it like to be a bee being batted? What is it like to be a batted bee?" -- The Mind's I (Hofstadter, Dennet) To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.