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Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 07:08:22 +0200
From: m.kornig@sondal.net
To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org
Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: My First Lojban Words 1.4
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Vid (and all the others),

I see Lojban as a language that is meant to
be spoken, i.e. used for ORAL (and written)
communication between people. Just like any
other natural language...

The fact that it has been created "artificially"
does NOT mean that it is not fit for this purpose.
Nor less suitable. Nor more difficult to learn, etc.
And it does not mean either that pedagogical
concepts that seem to work for other languages
can't/shouldn't be applied.

I remember that this was my first question
a few weeks ago (?) for this mailing list.
The answer was: yes, Lojban is meant to be
spoken!

Actually, I would not bother to learn a language
that is restricted to written communication or
(even worse if I may say so) to internet/email
communication.

And once I have learnt some more, may be in a year or
so, I expect to meet up with some of you to see
whether it really works, and whether the words
(and the grammar) I've learnt are really useful...

Maybe this explains the different views we seem
to have on "useful" words to learn for beginners?

Cheers, Martin