X-Digest-Num: 4 Message-ID: <44114.4.33.959273823@eGroups.com> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:18:21 -0500 (EST) From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: proverbs and parables X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 33 Content-Length: 1745 Lines: 33 >In the long term, it would be nice to see a sizeable collection from >a variety of languages/cultures which (after proofreading, of >course) could go on the FTP site or even be published as a booklet >(I recently read a posting on the Auxlang list that over 30,000 >books had been published in Esperanto, so we've got a way to go yet >- though of course this could just be symptomatic of Esperantists' >tendency to wild exaggeration!). Such a collection would put some >weight behind Lojban's claim to be culturally neutral, and would >also be encouraging in the sense that by learning Lojban one can >read texts from a wide variety of cultures which will not always >exist in English (or other natlang) translation. The technical term for such a book is called a chrestomathy (sp?) and it is onme of the 6 odd books already planned for, albeit probably the last one. We indeed want to have a collection of Lojban texts for people. We also want a variety of authors and source languages/cultures. In order to have quality writing of course, we need to wait till we have speakers all over who are producing such texts. You and Jorge and others posting recently show that we are starting to build that community of people skilled in the language who are not "Lojban Central". 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 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: ftp.access.digex.net /pub/access/lojbab or see Lojban WWW Server: href="http://xiron.pc.helsinki.fi/lojban/" Order _The Complete Lojban Language_ - see our Web pages or ask me.