From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Dec 08 12:56:33 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 08 Dec 2007 12:56:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1J16ij-0006NH-RO for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sat, 08 Dec 2007 12:56:26 -0800 Received: from squid17.laughingsquid.net ([72.32.93.144]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1J16i7-0006M6-AC for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 08 Dec 2007 12:56:15 -0800 Received: (qmail 30281 invoked by uid 48); 8 Dec 2007 12:48:29 -0800 Received: from c-75-68-233-37.hsd1.vt.comcast.net (c-75-68-233-37.hsd1.vt.comcast.net [75.68.233.37]) by webmail.ixkey.info (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Sat, 8 Dec 2007 12:48:29 -0800 Message-ID: <20071208124829.a65uyiiosg0s08wc@webmail.ixkey.info> Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 12:48:29 -0800 From: mungojelly@ixkey.info To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] la cinban. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1.4) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 13988 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mungojelly@ixkey.info Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Hello, I have discovered/invented a new language which I'm calling "la cinban." which is an excerpt of Lojban. Cinban is the application of UI cmavo to English text. The name of the language comes from this old post by Robin, where he was actually suggesting it in passing as an alternative name for Lojban itself: http://www.lojban.org/eo/lists/lojban-list/msg11256.html .i .a'u On his very next post on the same thread, he uses Cinban as I'm describing it, adding a "{.ie}" to the beginning of an English sentence: http://www.lojban.org/eo/lists/lojban-list/msg11261.html In fact, as I'm sure all long-term Lojbanistanis are well aware, Cinban .i'u has always been very commonly spoken on this email list and in other Lojbanic arenas. What I'm hoping .a'o to do is just to give it some more specific energy ro'e & focus, to really see what can be brought out of it. I believe .iaro'a that Cinban itself is a useful and interesting language, which might be worth learning not just as a stepping stone to Lojban, but also on its own merits. I've created a forum http://groups.google.com/group/cinban where I plan to practice .o'o using Cinban until I'm fully fluent .a'o in it. Anyone's welcome .e'uro'a to join me, of course. .uenaidai mu'o mi'e bret. 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.