[lojban-beginners] Re: a presentation on Lojban

[Matt Arnold <mattarn@123.net>]

Thanks to everyone for saving my life from assasination. I already was going to use Open Office anyway. Sadly, PowerPoint has become a word like Kleenex and Xerox these days. Force of habit.
I am happy to report that at Penguicon, the approach I've always seen attendees to discovering a Windows victim has not been hostility, but thrusting CDs at him/her and offering to install Linux. We have a helpful bunch of guys and gals here in the Michigan LUGs.
Sorry for putting this to the beginner's list, but I still considered myself a beginner. Considering that I actually kind of speak the language now, perhaps I'm not. Can someone direct me to the access to that list?
I'll be sure to offer brochures, Alice and [la nicte cadzu] in paper and electronic forms.
As for the  "what's the point in learning a fake language?" my presentation will include the arguments here: http://www.geocities.com/nemorathwald/Why_Learning_Lojban.htm
I'll specifically have to argue it as an alternative-- not to English-- but to Esperanto or Klingon, with which my audience will be familiar.
-Matt

lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org wrote:
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>>From: Elmo <entropy@swissinfo.org>
>>Reply-To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org
>>To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org
>>Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: a presentation on Lojban
>>Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:18:39 +0200
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>>On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 12:19 -0500, Matt Arnold wrote:
>> > In April, I will be giving a presentation and discussion about Lojban at 
>>Penguicon in Michigan. (www.penguicon.org) It's a combination science 
>>fiction and open source software convention. I'll have the ability to 
>>project from a laptop, so I think I'll put together a PowerPoint 
>>presentation. Has this sort of thing been done before? Any advice or 
>>suggestions as I begin preparing for it?
>> > -la epcat
>>A presentation in PowerPoint on Open-Source convention? I guess you'll
>>get assassinated.
>>Elmo
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>If you wish to insure against assassination attempts it has been 
>demonstrated that Open Office has a fairly useful presentation package.
>
>.bobgrif.

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