From LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu Mon Apr 17 18:53:39 1995 Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 15:30:42 PDT From: "John L. McClellion, Jr." Subject: How to start? To: Bob LeChevalier Message-ID: Greetings All, I'm newbie here, so help me out. I'm primed and ready to begin learning Lojban, with fluency as my goal. What materials do I need to start, where are they, how much will they cost, and how do I get them? I've some knowledge of Loglan, and I have L-1 and L-4&5, but I assume that these are useless. I've devoured the mini-lesson from the WWW page, and I have the primitives list on my hard-drive. I have some kind of order form that I also printed off the WWW page, but it doesn't say what is in the packages, nor the price. I'm especially interested in any IBM compat. software. A question: to whom is this post being sent? And to whom do I refer que stions about the language when I get started learning? Thanks for the help, and I hope to be writing in Lojban soon (well, comparitively soon :-)! Thanks, John McClellion From: Bob LeChevalier To: jmcclel@globalmail.globalvision.net Subject: Re: How to start? There are around 95 subscribers to Lojban List, most of whom are also on our paper mailing list. I also sent you the long Diagrammed Summary of Lojban Grammar, which is the logical next thing after the minilesson. There iss also a reference grammar and a draft textbook available on the ftp site and probably also via the www page. By all means ask questions about the language to Lojban List, and people will probably be quick to answer. Your knowledge of Loglan is not useless - take what you know of the grammar and substitute corresponding words from the Lojban word lists, and what you have will almost certainly be correct or very close to it. The ftp site has an unapproved list of word correspondences between Lojban and TLI Loglan. lojbab ---- lojbab lojbab@access.digex.net Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 For the artificial language Loglan/Lojban, see ftp.cs.yale.edu /pub/lojban or see Lojban WWW Server: href="http://xiron.pc.helsinki.fi/lojban/" Cc: lojban