Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:44:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1EcW1S-0008Fi-JV for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:44:58 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1EcW1S-0008Fb-8f for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:44:58 -0800 Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:44:58 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: A ranking system for Lojban speaking proficiency? Message-ID: <20051116224458.GG23316@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <1880.85.226.150.186.1132179306.squirrel@handgranat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1880.85.226.150.186.1132179306.squirrel@handgranat.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 2578 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 718 This is not specifically directet at snan; just using that as a launching point. On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 11:15:06PM +0100, sunnan@handgranat.org wrote: > About the idea of rating lojban skill in general: .i'enaisai Count > me out. It scares me and I find it tasteless and elitistic. This > might be a knee-jerk reaction from my behalf, but I just don't > like this idea. Wow. Y'all are taking this *way* to seriously. The intent is a fun little game to goad people into talking verbally in Lojban more often. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/