Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:34:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IjESj-0006Kf-Lj for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:34:19 -0700 Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.134.190]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IjESJ-0006Jm-De for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:33:51 -0700 Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id i10so1237748mue for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:33:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; bh=bwl0XFZoT2ox2ZMm/Y6Y+eyTD9IwkhyC1x5Bshwxig0=; b=XSzXFEZM6dPnwDgh90PqKIytW3Wo2+sxBTSQRH0rSeT+Pa0Rll9+KMOE+3Eo40+BVWoNYU70RI56aKat9l+1zaitfa6OLgBoqeDiW8cknylY79FB+BgkdAMP1kzNG7gK2OJK/5wpBWA6wLf0bYj9HAZEmxgjjnL+gU2RynY3e2Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=HWf4fRmaU6utc/JloSxYqRvmQUllZlKt9M7FuUj8sXSpO5BHvtv94Fov9+YbZZMUJ7pXQq7XT6Vu/iZKj0NZZcqJc5kuD1jtD0IaG31jB1V408zgs6VUOLty4UK3QgzkHlbYIaSKYEVIGbm97HwDqVv/IUkuactK+ntxwmDUn7s= Received: by 10.82.162.14 with SMTP id k14mr5537534bue.1192887197466; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:33:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.113.2 with HTTP; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:33:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2204fa080710200633i681486e4l234f44613140eb5e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:33:17 -0400 From: "Jared Angell" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] some questions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_11007_14857196.1192887197463" X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5506 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: angell.jared@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 2125 ------=_Part_11007_14857196.1192887197463 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Can anyone here think in Lojban, and if so what is that like? Would anyone agree with me that Lojban follows the rules of General Semantics? Wouldn't it be fairly easy to write a piece of software to translate Lojban texts into English? Why is it that it is so difficult to translate texts into Lojban? My understanding is that it is... Also...isn't keeping track of the place structures for every single word is Lojban damn near impossible???? -- Jared "There is no emotion, there is peace; there is no ignorance, there is knowledge; there is no passion, there is serenity; there is no death, there is the Universe" "Work smart when you can and hard if you must" "When a system is corrupt then it's time for a reformat" "Open Source: The light side of computing. It's never too late to join" ------=_Part_11007_14857196.1192887197463 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Can anyone here think in Lojban, and if so what is that like?

Would anyone agree with me that Lojban follows the rules of General Semantics?

Wouldn't it be fairly easy to write a piece of software to translate Lojban texts into English?

Why is it that it is so difficult to translate texts into Lojban? My understanding is that it is...

Also...isn't keeping track of the place structures for every single word is Lojban damn near impossible????

--
Jared

"There is no emotion, there is peace;  there is no ignorance, there is knowledge;  there is no passion, there is serenity;  there is no death, there is the Universe"

"Work smart when you can and hard if you must"

"When a system is corrupt then it's time for a reformat"

"Open Source: The light side of computing.  It's never too late to join" ------=_Part_11007_14857196.1192887197463--