[lojban-beginners] Re: Hello!

[Nora Kischer-Browne <azetidine@gmail.com>]

On 8/15/05, Servanto de Homaro <ServantoDeHomaro@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> coi .noras. (it's OK?)

That's my name; wear it out as much as you like...

> But I was born in May... (^_^)

And I was born in November. It doesn't have to make sense. ^_^

> I know my English is strange although I've learned English ten
> years (junior highschool: 3, senior highschool:3, university: 4),
> and almost all Japanese are much the same as me:  we haven't
> mastered English at all.

At least you guys try. I know of many American students who never take
learning a second language seriously--and don't seem to take learning
English terribly seriously, either.

>  There are serious *problems* in the
> educational administration in Japan.  (I'm not sure which word
> is the best --- "problem", "question", "affair", "matter",
> "issue"...)

I don't know of a single educational system that doesn't have problems.

> And many Japanese themselves have a greater
> problem:  they are extremely afraid of their errors in English,
> they hesitate to speak in English, and they run away when a
> Gaijin (a foreigner) want to talk to them.

Understandably so; if someone wandered up to me and started to talk in
Lojban, I'd definitely blush feriociously at my atrocious skills
therein, if not run away myself.

> But I'm not ashamed of my strange English because I'm not a
> native English-speaker; my English errors are unavoidable.  And,
> IF MY ENGLISH WERE PERFECT, I WOULD NOT NEED LOJBAN!

You would too! Lojban is awesome for its own sake. :P

And Matt: Probably. Theoretically, I could do it myself--just wander
over to a friend's house and get her hundreds of downloaded comics,
then proceed with the photoshoppery... but I'm lazy.

mi'e .noras.