From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Mar 05 21:31:33 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:31:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JX8hY-00042A-UH for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:31:33 -0800 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.233]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JX8hQ-000421-Tp for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:31:31 -0800 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so2462692wxd.25 for ; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:31:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=y/O7+P2M6I0CVIzf47F+/dPgYwOjkyzszdotWBucBEk=; b=bZaJs00TVV6AD+FmijW479S9mk8THDB7GhHXSEL7E6X5VRHDmXlgAP4OU8X0CThBwJkY6W5jXvVdhlMj4dW0qlCfNqkSGmYEiV8Pa01azhy+BW8K4wa2O1Q/kxe5hyE4hYtWCmiQk/MhBjPybos9UqTItyYNi8xz29VgDO2R0Dk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=PWREhUTII530x6Z5T1X3i7r4rtD+OVw20ioDyEAkY1yw64U4QZulBQ5Tx1szzeyj6XvzDiRYAS4yYiNfK4GYVxWOLnc/qeTBC0lYpjbq/2VmujBsZHg5w4VFimgnLTAwbf5UyC4RpZ4oMV5+WC4KNJFBfMOs08arOUBRopZLL4g= Received: by 10.70.58.2 with SMTP id g2mr4325754wxa.65.1204781475955; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:31:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.32.4 with HTTP; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 21:31:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <975a94850803052131t7b31c30dl2c37d2a8cc301fb6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 21:31:15 -0800 From: "Joel Shellman" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Lojban, Linguistics, and the Why MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Spam-Score: -0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 14211 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jshellman@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list The previous question about learning materials reminded me of something I have been wanting. Is there a book or set of material that would provide the following: I would like to "learn" lojban through learning why it was created the way it was. What are cmavo, why are there cmavo at all (why not some other way to do it, what were some alternatives and why not chosen), why are the categories what they are, etc. What is the grammar and why was it chosen to be the way it is... So... basically a journey in both lojban and the linguistics background that resulted in lojban. How does lojban reflect linguistic science? Additionally, it would be interesting to hear would lojban be done differently if we knew then what we know now? Is there a reasonably small set of materials that would cover this, or is this something that would have to be picked up in bits and pieces all over? Thanks! 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.