From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Sep 17 12:43:29 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:43:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kg2vx-00060Z-IH for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:43:29 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kg2vx-00060S-G5 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:43:29 -0700 Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:43:29 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: How many fluent speakrs of Lojban are there? Message-ID: <20080917194329.GG7580@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <975a94850809132244tdf5f00fm941ba3703635da34@mail.gmail.com> <737b61f30809161756x2b7d69d8l5874e9b6b36e2e66@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <737b61f30809161756x2b7d69d8l5874e9b6b36e2e66@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-archive-position: 14769 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 Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 07:56:58PM -0500, Chris Capel wrote: > What other situations does Lojban have a high instrumental value > in? I have a *completely* non-professional suspicion I've been holding on to for a while: I wonder if Lojban would be easier for autistics to communicate in, because of the attitudinals and the strict structure? If so, that'd be an interesting semi-Sapir-Whorf effect. -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.