From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Sep 28 16:08:56 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kk5No-0002o8-MW for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:08:56 -0700 Received: from mail-gx0-f19.google.com ([209.85.217.19]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kk5Nl-0002nf-R0 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:08:56 -0700 Received: by gxk12 with SMTP id 12so10795489gxk.10 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:08:47 -0700 (PDT) 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=2ynBh7vZWRUn/IkK+QlYMiJp8Yrb2VnmV1+poSZrZd4=; b=QCfuw88jHwKdXi03gg6k5kbHjTwFf9TeT0lwZgCvu0Tw0iG1tg0uLi28ip7Ie7ne4r EF4NXUrJE5NdFoCk1JrfZDWPgWLdfuoYjdXrvJ9nv/tG902Wv88o962EDCtZk9UaAMTm WuQ0uiE2qldnGAWTyPKopTYStIal3ncFAXGVU= 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=qT7L1VRY5AYtXvxnKyT3gk9GYl1sPWVnPNuO1InP7MxuJTuP8oWYB4SsGYCM3+HI8W vXPt6Uod8UrM/JTVdzsXwIA/yDN8shABF1d6p22fitifG6lQkxF4T1WeyyYTLOA0b1/a LWuVY7rYZWEDZy0bcMyFz3LGgLvXHAEGXxMZM= Received: by 10.151.142.2 with SMTP id u2mr6646521ybn.112.1222643327822; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:08:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.199.20 with HTTP; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:08:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <737b61f30809281608q6eb27b84y80de3a442e56761@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:08:47 -0500 From: "Chris Capel" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] eastern languages 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: 14804 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: pdf23ds@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list I wonder to what extent eastern languages are more consistent and simple to learn that English, and whether that has played a minor role in the relatively low representation of those languages in the Lojban community. (The major role, of course, being that Lojban wasn't developed in Japan or India and has little-to-no foreign language learning or reference material.) I mean, Japan's othography system(s) scares me to death, but maybe a cumbersome orthography doesn't bug a logically-minded person as much as a cumbersome grammar does. And other eastern countries have reformed orthographies or (maybe?) haven't used ideographs in centuries or more. But I don't really know much about those. Chris Capel -- "What is it like to be a bat? What is it like to bat a bee? What is it like to be a bee being batted? What is it like to be a batted bee?" -- The Mind's I (Hofstadter, Dennet) 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.