From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Mar 06 03:33:24 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:33:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JXELj-0005AR-Am for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:33:23 -0800 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.152]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JXELb-00059f-Gd for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:33:22 -0800 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e12so1631266fga.0 for ; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:33:09 -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=t5GCVxlYSpUU7QTO/Ar3IapJJJU5E0t5Ep5ioFXJZEY=; b=eX/+nVVYsUW0lysYuAjbQlhkjS6zpXx9P31gcfVSkaBt52yKmqVN5+G13jZCy+nMZFr/D7N4C9g7jkdtcEuQ8fZgSPXWnfhBk+daVNOrt8nXWiBZsIn2iUbmDqAAkunrIlk4cWxdmb9+NL6dhT7jIxb/CI0dHy+OKJ43P6+Lgl8= 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=V5DvJ7IT8+fn254g63/Il+RAePLvIomD7PO0fQbnN7QB2BLCjAxzHXxEfAvY29SZkV4hBdK/Tm0elxbLvioU7s8HbTSnvEde3XZNzL4kZMDVlq/JK9LdPj1sVNrSmzn4nZz4y6jIzPM5Cu6RSY9kw+l6347HzZ9SUO6tqStDBO8= Received: by 10.86.50.8 with SMTP id x8mr4577114fgx.61.1204803188746; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:33:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.86.59.4 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 03:33:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <925d17560803060333h458752e9w524dde45b30ae9e4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 08:33:08 -0300 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?=" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Lojban, Linguistics, and the Why In-Reply-To: <975a94850803052131t7b31c30dl2c37d2a8cc301fb6@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <975a94850803052131t7b31c30dl2c37d2a8cc301fb6@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 14213 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On 3/6/08, Joel Shellman wrote: > > I would like to "learn" lojban through learning why it was created the > way it was. What are cmavo, why are there cmavo at all (why not some > other way to do it, what were some alternatives and why not chosen), > why are the categories what they are, etc. What is the grammar and why > was it chosen to be the way it is... To do that, you should probably start here: That's Loglan, not Lojban, but Lojban didn't really innovate in most of those things. Just beware that the vocabulary will be different for the most part. mu'o mi'e xorxes 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.