Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 01 May 2005 11:43:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DSHoC-0006zN-Us for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sun, 01 May 2005 10:00:45 -0700 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.206]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1DSHo8-0006ys-8G for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sun, 01 May 2005 10:00:44 -0700 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so1518285wra for ; Sun, 01 May 2005 10:00:08 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=TlGMOGYU7Eq6wPPwEMu+q0xqMTBzGaL6BeppBy8Pm5a+Pody6w48SbRDx2Qt5g2T0Im2KAHl1Sr5T9N8DB8aRoGVN4l1YwKING/ZslhvNMJwZBV6jSprpzrrqtQb9ybzSld3pJWDtW+TrNHuNOgvtITxQne4llT8xjQUZp6gI7I= Received: by 10.54.125.20 with SMTP id x20mr187355wrc; Sun, 01 May 2005 10:00:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.129.17 with HTTP; Sun, 1 May 2005 10:00:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 18:00:08 +0100 From: Jack Wright To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Introduction Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_5050_21733967.1114966808040" X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-archive-position: 1396 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: jackrw@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 2021 ------=_Part_5050_21733967.1114966808040 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi I stumbled across lojban a few days ago when I was looking at a list of=20 conlangs. What a beautiful language! I study languages out of interest and I'm especially interested in those=20 which force me to think in a different way to English, Spanish etc. So I've= =20 enjoyed most Finnish and Japanese. lojban looks to have that kind of=20 different structure, but none of the irregular verbs (Finnish) and characte= r=20 problems (Japanese)... A couple of questions on resources: I use a PDA flashcard programme (Stackz= =20 - v good by the way) - are there any sources of words (e.g. CSV) that I can= =20 adapt? Secondly, for the PDA are there any ebooks (MS Reader) that I can=20 use? I've pasted in the draft textbook but it doesn't have an index etc. cheers! Jack London, UK ------=_Part_5050_21733967.1114966808040 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi

I stumbled across lojban a few days ago when I was looking at a list of con= langs. What a beautiful language!

I study languages out of interest and I'm especially interested in those which force me to think in a different way to English, Spanish etc.  So I've enjoyed most Finnish and Japanese.  lojban looks to have that kind of different structure, but none of the irregular verbs (Finnish) and character problems (Japanese)...

A couple of questions on resources: I use a PDA flashcard programme (Stackz - v good by the way) - are there any sources of words (e.g. CSV) that I can adapt?  Secondly, for the PDA are there any ebooks (MS Reader) that I can use?  I've pasted in the draft textbook but it doesn't have an index etc.

cheers!
Jack
London, UK
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