From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Sep 13 22:50:16 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:50:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KekUy-0002BU-8N for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:50:16 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KekUy-0002BN-5x for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:50:16 -0700 Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:50:16 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: How many fluent speakrs of Lojban are there? Message-ID: <20080914055016.GC9808@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <975a94850809132244tdf5f00fm941ba3703635da34@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <975a94850809132244tdf5f00fm941ba3703635da34@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-archive-position: 14740 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 Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:44:38PM -0700, joel@mentics.com wrote: > > Define "fluent". There are perhaps a few dozen people who can > > have a comfortable conversation in Lojban. None of them are as > > fluent in Lojban as they are in their native languages, but I > > don't think that's even possible-- no one knows the Lojban words > > for "carburetor" or "lemon merengue pie", for instance, because > > there aren't any. > > But could someone who was sufficiently versed in lojban, create a > word on the fly for those things? Sure, but how would you know you had been understood? For *sure*, I mean? > If I'm discussing desserts with a friend and I say, > lemon-whipped-egg-round-thing, would it likely be understood? Oh, you mean lemon cheesecake, yeah? -_- -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.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.