From LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Sat Mar 6 22:48:49 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI Received: (qmail 7591 invoked from network); 2 Apr 1997 06:03:39 -0000 Received: from segate.sunet.se (192.36.125.6) by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with SMTP; 2 Apr 1997 06:03:39 -0000 Received: from segate.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <1.D5F8A0B3@SEGATE.SUNET.SE>; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 8:03:38 +0100 Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 20:15:53 -0300 Reply-To: Esteban Flamini Sender: Lojban list From: Esteban Flamini Subject: Re: Someplace to "speak" online? To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 1254 Lines: 33 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