From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Aug 16 10:52:30 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:52:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GDPYp-0000Zj-Pm for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:52:11 -0700 Received: from sp604002mt.neufgp.fr ([84.96.92.61] helo=sMtp.neuf.fr) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GDPYl-0000Za-3Y for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:52:11 -0700 Received: from smtp.9online.fr ([84.4.114.217]) by sp604002mt.gpm.neuf.ld (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-5.05 (built Feb 16 2006)) with ESMTP id <0J43002SEQOIGH10@sp604002mt.gpm.neuf.ld> for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:45:54 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:46:55 +0200 From: David KOCH Subject: [lojban] Re: What Texts Would You [...] In Lojban - 3 In-reply-to: To: lojban-list@lojban.org Message-id: Organization: 9Online MIME-version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <486760598.20060816180953@mail.ru> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.00 (Win32) X-Spam-Score: -0.6 (/) X-archive-position: 12474 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: dkoch@9online.fr Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list You are right, but I though have such a REFERENCE book (long and detailed, covering large vocabulary and full grammar) would be a good thing. But yet, true that short articles or such things would prevent people from being scared at first sight... > No, you probably wouldn't invest the time and effort to read such a > lengthy work in Lojban. Even if you did, the "very shortly" timeframe > is too small to learn enough expertise to understand a text like > Gulliver's Travels if it were in Lojban. Here are some arguments from > Lojbab about why it's better to translate short stories and articles > instead of novel-length works: > [...] > I think it was during a similar discussion last year that he sent > this. I agree. Short stories and articles are a better way to spend > our time right now. > -epkat >> Very shortly, I'd like to read this masterpiece in Lojban : >> http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/829 >> http://lee.jaffebros.com/gulliver/ >> KOCH David aka Kochise >>> coi jbonei >>> Suppose you have a weighty amount of time and desire to learn Lojban >>> by reading texts in it. What texts would you like to use for this >>> purpose? >>> Would they be sci-fi, detectives, or scientific articles? What authors >>> would you like to read in Lojban? >>> mi'e .ianis. To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.