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[lojban-beginners] Re: klingon swears



haha This email exchange is a funny way to start my day.


p.s. Newbies are particularly palatable with some BBQ sauce. 


2009/9/1 Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org>
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 01:10:39PM +0100, Michael Eaton wrote:
> Lojban <> Klingon.
>
> Perhaps a Klingon board or mailing list, and maybe a little research, would serve you better.

Hey, no reason to bite the newbies.

Sarah Leach: you probably want to subscribe to tlhingan-hol instead.

The rest of you: Robin runs both the Klingon and Lojban mailing lists. http://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/ has a prominent link to http://www.digitalkingdom.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi, which is used to join any mailing list run from lojban.org, including this one.

I presume the source of the confusion is that the name of the Klingon mailing list is "tlhingan-hol" (not immediately recognizable to someone who doesn't know any Klingon), while this mailing list is the only in the list that contains the word "beginners". This is poor usability, and should be fixed. Might it not be possible to make Ecartis display only the Klingon-related lists to people arriving from kli.org?

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Arnt Richard Johansen                                http://arj.nvg.org/
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it
wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had
to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized
that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in
finding mistakes in my own programs.
                         -- Maurice Wilkes discovers debugging, 1949