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[173.13.139.236]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l3si777586pbd.0.2011.11.01.17.23.26 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:23:26 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of rlpowell@stodi.digitalkingdom.org designates 173.13.139.236 as permitted sender) client-ip=173.13.139.236; Received: from rlpowell by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RLOc1-0004YX-PI; Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:23:25 -0700 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 17:23:25 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban@googlegroups.com Cc: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: Re: [lojban] Supporting Lojbanic babies. Message-ID: <20111102002325.GJ15924@stodi.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@googlegroups.com, lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20111101095715.GD15924@stodi.digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com X-Original-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of rlpowell@stodi.digitalkingdom.org designates 173.13.139.236 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=rlpowell@stodi.digitalkingdom.org Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 1004133512417 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline X-Spam-Score: -0.0 (/) X-Spam_score: -0.0 X-Spam_score_int: 0 X-Spam_bar: / On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 10:06:38AM -0600, Jonathan Jones wrote: > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:57 AM, Robin Lee Powell < > rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote: > > > > > I have recently had the pleasure to witness the birth of my two > > amazing girl infants. > > > > Congratulations! > > > > The mother is permitting me (it was a requirement of my helping > > her have kids, actually) to natter at them in Lojban, with the > > intention of them learning it as a language in the usual way > > (i.e. by having it around, rather than by explicit teaching). > > This will be a bit wonky as I'm the only person in the household > > who speaks it, but it'll be interesting, at least. > > > > I'm sorry, the wording is a bit unclear. Is she requiring you, or > are you requiring her to let you, natter in Lojban? The latter. She thinks it's pretty silly. :) > > Now, having said that, while I'm pretty good with the language, I > > have the same sorts of problems as everybody else: I get stuck > > saying things because I don't have the vocabulary or because of lack > > of idiom. > > > > This sort of thing takes a fair bit of effort to overcome (I've been > > known to spend multiple hours creating a new word, for example), and > > I don't have a lot of spare effort available, because, as previously > > mentioned, I'm *raising infant twins*. This limits my available > > time. Pretty extremely. > > > > It is likely that the Lojban community has some pretty strong > > interest in helping out with this project. :) > > > > So, if you'd like to help, here's what I'd like: > > > > 1. An indication here if you'd be willing to help with vocab/idiom > > issues. My ideal here would be that I send a post here (perhaps > > with "jboverba" in the subject always?) with "I tried to say "why is > > your lip quivering?" today and failed" or so, and y'all figure it > > out, and I ignore the thread, and then someone emails me directly > > with the result. Knowing that there's a pool of people willing to > > help there would be lovely. > > > > Sounds good to me. I volunteer to be email-you-guy. Lovely. -Robin -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. 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