From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed May 10 06:37:31 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 10 May 2006 06:37:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1FdosL-00016m-7Z for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Wed, 10 May 2006 06:37:13 -0700 Received: from silene.metacarta.com ([65.77.47.18]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1FdosH-00016b-El for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 10 May 2006 06:37:13 -0700 Received: from localhost (silene.metacarta.com [65.77.47.18]) by silene.metacarta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC8999FA4C for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 09:37:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from silene.metacarta.com ([65.77.47.18]) by localhost (silene.metacarta.com [65.77.47.18]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 02028-02 for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 09:37:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [65.77.47.138] (baxter.metacarta.com [65.77.47.138]) by silene.metacarta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 441FD9FA02 for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 09:37:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4461EC81.2040607@ropine.com> Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 09:37:05 -0400 From: Seth Gordon User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20051002) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Lojban Scholasticism References: <20060508152918.17862.qmail@web81305.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <366115241.20060509075751@mail.ru> <446039DA.40909@gmail.com> <4460B11A.6000300@lojban.org> In-Reply-To: <4460B11A.6000300@lojban.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at metacarta.com X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 11457 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: sethg@ropine.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Bob LeChevalier wrote: > I think that is part of the problem. People want to jump from Aesop's > fables, which are a paragraph long, without a standard text so that > people feel more free to take liberties with the wording, and then jump > to novels of great length, often loaded with the sorts of odd uses of > language that would tend to attract Lojbanists (no insult intended to > the Alice translators). > > Athelstan was wise in tackling a Saki short story 16 years ago. There > are plenty of these, they are only a few pages long so they can be > translated much more quickly than a novel, and they are short enough > that a lot of relatively novice Lojbanists would be inclined to try to > read the text (I don't expect that there will be much market for the > Lojban translations of "War and Peace" or "Les Miserables" for a good > while). Someone looking for another intermediate-length project can translate this phrasebook: http://www.zompist.com/phrases.html 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.