From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Feb 02 11:48:02 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:48:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JLOLK-00050t-9P for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:48:02 -0800 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.183]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JLOLG-00050j-Ek for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:48:02 -0800 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id m16so1283709waf.20 for ; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:47:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=aHhEygfQwyanuaUwLgZZ909Z8atno84BSKqUUM2TQf4=; b=PQA7MeLLC14DychGjVpUxxB5IlOdB60ABl+Yz3ICcRp5GkbShIyZXVcrnnzBg/kZbfWho6CcN6MJL1yq3IF5KFw6VHeEM4OA/CZ5J+llAB+RAYpnSNQjuhROdYqcz4qQa7FF6MZBKqIp34RlvTJIflgBHl18LfsE+lF6uq3mbWk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Ivg3mZI1Ui+yOcZdl7x/7ig10dFS7Efyol+fkb9mHhZNC6nBSruODBQLO60UTiLqCa8h8wvaRxb1WJGdKTkdeuWhEMfdeOkooMohM8/SvEsq6wJmgHJY9op/9G5JRx8WmbKIeFDd0vFFso/X73tIgq9XlGcmpFHOaK9+YFUGW6k= Received: by 10.141.171.6 with SMTP id y6mr3463123rvo.174.1201981677334; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:47:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.141.43.21 with HTTP; Sat, 2 Feb 2008 11:47:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 14:47:57 -0500 From: "Matt Arnold" To: "Michal Tropp" , lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Technical matters In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 14153 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: matt.mattarn@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Michal, Lojban has about 7,000 words, making it one of the largest artificial languages by far. However, it does not have a lot of specialist jargon. English has hundreds of thousands of vocabulary words just in its main dictionaries alone, with about 25,000 words added each year. This is not counting specialist jargon, which is often a language unto itself in each field. Most other languages for their jargon simply speak the English jargon word or an adaptation of it. Lojban is like this as well. What you might need to use is a borrowing, called a fu'ivla. Look up "fu'ivla" in the language materials and it will teach you how to integrate a word from other languages. -Eppcott On Feb 1, 2008 4:27 PM, Michal Tropp wrote: > > Hi. > My name is Michael and I'm strongly interested in learning lojban. > I'm especially interested in the application of that language in field of > technic and engineering. > My question is - are there any projects concerning this matter running? > Where can I find something more about it? > Is there any (even basic) technical vocabulary of lojban? > > I've read on the lojban webpage that one of the currently running projects > concerns application of that language in European Patent System. > That is why I assume that there is some technical vocabulary already > developed. > > Best regards, > Michael > > ________________________________ > Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! MSN Messenger > 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.