[lojban-beginners] Re: just a hobby?

[Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>]

Where did he say cool? He said leet. There's a big difference. Do not
read it to mean popular among the millions of average non-elites. Leet
implies honor within an elite specialized geek crowd.
-Matt

On 9/5/05, Naomi K <alien.juxtaposition@gmail.com> wrote:

Leet? Cool? i'd be living in a fantasy world if Lojban was the 'cool' langauge (not implying that the people who are currently doing Lojban are NOT cool... :-P). 'Cool' is 'popular', 'in vogue', etc...definitely not Lojban...yet (or am I being overly optimistic by adding the 'yet'? Ok, I'll stop analysing my email now...)

mi'e .nei,omis.

On 9/5/05, Nora Kischer-Browne <azetidine@gmail.com > wrote:

Damnit, Michael, you stole my plan. :P

Except that I wouldn't write the AI, as that's somewhat inefficient,
herculean, and messy--I'd grow it and train it, like you do kids. Or
have the people buying these "electronic domestic servants" train them
themselves and spare me the trouble.

And also, I would've established a sizeable harem for myself,
consisting of a good portion of the people I'd've given small
countries to, thereby effectively continuing to control those small
countries.

Oh, yeah. Lojban. I do it as a hobby, too. But also for "Whee, leet
secret language!" reasons. And also for "I want to teach a class* in
this someday!"

Also because all the cool kids are doing it.

mi'e .noras.

* http://web.grinnell.edu/exco/

On 9/3/05, Michael van der Gulik < mikevdg@gulik.co.nz> wrote:
> HeliodoR wrote:
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> > I must ask You guys about what Lojban exactly is for You.
> > Is it only a hobby? An interesting experiment of languages and
> > communication? Or do believe that the logical language has a future?
> > I'm curious about the answers.
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> I find Lojban interesting because it can be parsed by a computer and
> potentially understood. One day, I plan to write a sentient artificial
> intelligence (which one would talk to using Lojban...), which I will
> then distribute across the world under the guise of electronic domestic
> servants and eventually attain world domination by exerting my will over
> them. If you're nice to me, I might give you a small country :-).
>
> Until then, I'm still trying to memorise all those gismu!!
>
> Michael.
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