[lojban-beginners] introduction

[Seth Gordon <sethg@ropine.com>]

coi rodo...

Every few months, I get the urge to read about Lojban.  With a 
three-year-old and a ten-month-old at home, I don't have much time for 
studying--once I think I have Lojban tense/aspect markers down pat, I 
will bore you all with practice sentences involving {cifnu} and 
{sipna}--but at least with this list I can keep my hand in.  Robin, 
thanks for giving me a way to join the list without dealing with Yahoo 
Groups.

A little about myself: I do programming for Metacarta, a startup in 
Cambridge (MA, USA) that makes a search engine for geographic data.  I 
have a blog at http://dynamic.ropine.com/yo/ that gets updated far less 
often than I would like (see "don't have much time", above).  I used to 
speak passable Spanish and ASL, although I haven't practiced either in a 
few years.  I read classical Hebrew and Jewish Aramaic at the level of 
"if I torture the page for long enough, it will usually confess".

I'm interested in Lojban for two contrasting reasons: (1) the rigorous 
formal design gives it potential as a medium for human-computer 
communication; (2) the range of relationships that can be expressed 
concisely (due to all the cmavo) gives it potential as a literary language.

mu'o mi'e seldud [cf Genesis 4:25--is this correct?]