From LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Sat Mar 6 22:49:31 2010 Reply-To: Esteban Flamini Sender: Lojban list Date: Fri Apr 04 13:03:47 1997 X-UIDL: 860176948.019 From: Esteban Flamini Subject: Re: Someplace to "speak" online? To: John Cowan Status: U X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 1254 X-From-Space-Date: Fri Apr 04 13:03:47 1997 X-From-Space-Address: - Message-ID: Anthony Lawless said: >Well, if we ever *want* to pick up enough to speak it a >conversational forum is pretty much necessary, and speaking as a >newcomer I see no reason why we *couldn't* start here [in this mailing list]. Jorge Llambias said: >Random discussion in the language here is more than welcome! I think both the mailing list and IRC are good places to start speaking Lojban until other resources are available. Just to avoid the list's getting disorganized I propose that if anyone wants to start a conversation in Lojban through the list, s/he explicitly state it by setting her/his posting's subject field to something like 'talk/chat on/about '. This could help separating discussion IN Lojban from discussion ON Lojban. would help following separate threads too. It would be great if s/he also states the competence in Lojban the reader is expected to have, by including words such as "beginners", "intermediate", "advanced", so the subscriber knows if s/he would be able to understand the conversation. Examples of such subject fields could be: "Talk about linguistics" "Talk about french movies, beginners" "Talking in Lojban about Ettore Scola, advanced" co'o mi'e. esteban. --------------- Esteban Flamini