From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jan 10 20:13:03 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:13:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1EwXLp-00060Z-BA for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:12:45 -0800 Received: from mx1.mail.ru ([194.67.23.121]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1EwXLn-00060Q-C7 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:12:45 -0800 Received: from [194.126.169.55] (port=42677 helo=1C-YANIS) by mx1.mail.ru with esmtp id 1EwXLl-000D97-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 07:12:41 +0300 Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:12:31 +0600 From: Yanis Batura X-Mailer: The Bat! (v3.5.30) Professional X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1759816402.20060111101231@mail.ru> To: Matt Arnold Subject: [lojban] Re: A Lojban Game In-Reply-To: References: <19310326537.20060110120948@mail.ru> <20060110061507.GB22473@chain.digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.1 (--) X-archive-position: 11035 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: ybatura@mail.ru Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list 10.01.2006, 21:31 Matt Arnold wrote: > The second kind is the timed challenge, which perhaps can be > implemented on the MOO, in the style of a game show where the contest > is to come up with the best translation that we can in a limited time. > The translations would not be ideal but would more closely reflect > proficiency in spoken Lojban. Do we really need estimating proficiency of Lojban speakers? As Cpt. Miller said, "Our mission is to win the war", or, in other words, our mission is to develop Lojban. At this stage at least. In the first kind of game, the winner is who has most contributed to development of Lojban, not the most proficient speaker. mi'e .ianis. 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.