From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Nov 12 19:29:26 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 12 Nov 2006 19:29:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GjSVO-00056i-FB for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 19:29:06 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GjSVO-00056b-5e for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 19:29:06 -0800 Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 19:29:06 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Project: Intensive Course of Spoken Lojban Message-ID: <20061113032906.GA17734@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 13078 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 Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 06:25:21AM +0300, Yanis Batura wrote: > From: Robin Lee Powell > > > I speak it pretty comfortably. I've been trying to do regular > > phone chats (Story Time With Uncle Robin). Of course, I'm > > moving right now, but I'll start them up again. Have you come > > to any voice chats at all? > > In my post, I meant fluent speaking at advanced level, i. e. > speaking something comparable in complexity to usual written texts > in Lojban, without mental translation from English to Lojban. We simply don't have the vocabulary built up for that; lack of mental translation isn't the issue. > I've heard the recording of the first Story Time. In which I was speaking as slowly as possible because people kept telling me to slow down. -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/ 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.