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[lojban-beginners] Re: Newbie Intro
Naomi K wrote:
coi rodo
mi'e la nei,omis...and that's as far as I will delve into lojban, before
i make a fool of myself unwittingly ;) I am 15, am from Australia, and
am NOT a geek (*gasp* surprise!)...I consider myself to be a comfortable
black-box user with amateur HTML skills, but no further.
Haha... if you're into Lojban, I'm sorry, you're a geek. ;)
I have been
working studiously through the chapters of the beginners' section as
something interesting and fun to fill in my time on weekends and on the
school-bus. And that's about my introduction...
Are you referring to the _Lojban for Beginners_ book or the red book
or what?
Lojban is a wonderful, many-layered jewel of a language. I'm loving it.
If I have one setback about the language, that is the huge amount of
cmavo that I have to memorise with each chapter; but I love the precise
distinctions that Lojban makes between different conontations of the
same English-equivalent: it gives us dim-witted English-speakers
something more to think about :p
That gives me a headache, too. I tried Logflash but it gave me a headache.
I plan to write my own someday soon. (Oops, just revealed my true geekhood.)
Did anyone ever attempt to recuit their friends to Lojban? I sure tried,
but they think that I'm wasting my time on it o_0...well, when Lojban
becomes well-known in 50 years time, THAT will show them, alright :p
I know better than to try to talk to most of my friends about it. That's
one wonderful thing about the Internet, it expands your circle of friends
by a factor of ten million.
I wonder when Lojban WILL become widespread. When that day comes, what
will we, the early birds, be known as? The 'first thousand'? Would we
get any special treatment for having studied the language for years
before it came to everyone else in the world?
I'd be surprised if anything ever really came of it. After all, Esperanto
is well over a hundred years old. It's not Lojban but it is a step forward
in terms of usability and such. Today there are a few million speakers of
it, but there are also billions who have never even heard of it.
To me, the important things about Lojban are that it stretches your mind,
it helps you to think logically, and it helps you to understand language
in general (even other languages). And it's fun. That's good enough for
me.
Hal