From: Nick Nicholas <nsn@mullian.ee.Mu.OZ.AU>
Message-Id: <199210140629.AA07622@munagin.ee.mu.OZ.AU>
Subject: Re: Lujvo list
To: guru-a0@access.digex.com (Guru Aleph-Null)
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 16:29:40 EST
Cc: nsn@mullian.ee.Mu.OZ.AU (Nick Nicholas)
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Quoth Guru Aleph-Null:

(whatever you do, btw, don't start singing "Aleph-null bottles of beer on the
wall" :)

>Nah.. (Monty Python comes to mind with the Dirty Hungarian -> English
>Travelers translation book ;) I'll see what happens for the moment. 

We *must* do a lojban version of that! We simply *must* :)

>I got the le lojbo karni #16 and got a better idea what's been happening
>with the group. It looked like there were some major setbacks with
>people getting injured (e.g. Athelstan's accident)

Yes, that's one. Lojbab adopting kids right before he's supposed to start
publishing books is another. Ah well, we'll struggle through...

>I haven't exactly looked very closely at all the entries in the
>dictionaries, but I had the thought "How would you specify street
>names in Lojban?" 

I believe we attacked that problem once before (with Ivan's address). I
don't think we were 100% satisfied with the answers. You could bring up
the question on lojlist, and watch us battle it out, Kilkenny-cat-like :)

>I'm holding off a while until I get around to
>ordering the "textbook" (I think its the 130-page grammar guide)
>before I start popping questions on everyone. 

Oh, that... well, there's not that much in the lessons that isn't already
in the PLS material... the way most of us get into lojban is by diving
head-first into lojban text, and asking our way around it. You're strongly
encouraged to do so.

>("RTFM" comes to mind as a general guideline...)

Well, there's so little traffic on lojlist, we welcome the most obtuse of
questions :)

>I'm also throwing together some ideas for a "lojtci" or lojban tools
>program in Emacs Lisp 

Sounds intriguing. Definitely release it.

>Guru (la guru'eilef'nyl.) Aleph-Null
f'n isn't lojban, btw :)

I'm wondering what a translation of it would be... (checks cmavo list):
{la jdaralj. goi je'o.abuxino} is a start, though graceless...

*hehe* OK, talk to you later.

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"Despite millions of dollars of research, death continues to be this nation's
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