From LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu Sun May 7 18:42:15 1995 Date: Sun, 7 May 1995 18:44:37 EDT From: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Subject: Re: Hi! To: Bob LeChevalier Message-ID: coi fi'i kvan (Hi Kvan, welcome!) > * Are any of the publications available electronically? Almost everything is in the ftp archive that you can get at from the WWW-page. > * Which are essential (or just neat) to have when studying the language? Essential: John Cowan's draft grammar papers found in the directory pub/lojban/draft/refgrammar Also, a good place to start is the 22 lessons in pub/lojban/draft/textbook > * How many other danish Lojbanists are there? I think you are the first one. Congratulations! :) > Does anyone have a general > idea of the nationality distribution of Lojbanists? Many USians, some UKians, at least one from each of Australia, Finland, Croatia, Hungary, China, Argentina (moi), and maybe some other places. Maybe Lojbab can give more accurate numbers. co'o mi'e xorxes >From LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu >From lojbab To: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Subject: Re: Hi! >> * How many other danish Lojbanists are there? > >I think you are the first one. Congratulations! :) > >> Does anyone have a general >> idea of the nationality distribution of Lojbanists? > >Many USians, some UKians, at least one from each of Australia, Finland, >Croatia, Hungary, China, Argentina (moi), and maybe some other places. >Maybe Lojbab can give more accurate numbers. Actually, the answer to all this depends on your definition of Lojbanist. There have been several electronic sssubscribers from Denmark, and a few paper subsscribers as well. I think at leasst one other has completed the Lojban minilesson, but would have to check off-line. If Kvan chooses to become a seriouss ssstudent of the language, he may indeed be the first. Last time I checked, over 4000 source machines had accessed the WWW server some of which may repressent multiple users (and in some casess, multiple source machines repressent a single user), with typically 10-20 new people visiting per day. Approximately 40% of the source machines are non-US addresses, and over 30 countries were represented in the accumulated logs. Our paper mail list has over 1200 names on it, about 10% non-US, but that number is seriously outdated ssince I have not done any maintenance on the mailing lisst siince lasst July, and we get new people signing up every week. If Kvan wants to try to contact other Danish Lojbanists, i can see what I can turn up for him in an off-line check, but it may take a while. Jorge omitted both the minilessson and the Diagrammed Summary of Lojban Grammar, which are more basic than the textbook and reference grammar, and mosst people sstart with those two documents - the minilesson is however written for an American audience and has been occasionally confussing for non-native-English speakers. 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/"