Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 05:13:44 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199711301013.FAA23310@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Ashley Yakeley Sender: Lojban list From: Ashley Yakeley Subject: Re: Is Lojban important? X-To: Lojban List To: John Cowan Status: OR X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 732 X-From-Space-Date: Sun Nov 30 05:13:46 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU At 1997-11-29 05:46, Robin Turner wrote: >My attitude is similar to that >expressed in one of Iain Banks' "Culture" novels, where Marain is described >as "language as cultural weapon, and proud of it"!(incidentally, does >anyone know if Banks actually did some work on Marain?) I've read all his 'Culture' books, the only examples of Marain I saw were the wonderfully long transliterated personal names, and the script at the end of _The Player of Games_ (also a personal name), which is based on line segments between a three-by-three dot grid ('standard nonary Marain'). I imagine Marain would be closer to Lojban than to any other currently used human language. -- Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA http://www.halcyon.com/ashleyb/