[lojban-beginners] Re: [lojban] The Lojban MOO now in beta.

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 09:13:55AM -0500, Seth Gordon wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >The Lojban MOO, aka samxarmuj, is now ready for people to
> >actually use it.
> 
> Cool!  Congratulations!  Two questions:
> 
> (1) Will I commit a terrible faux pas if I create a character who
> responds v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y to everyone else, because of all the
> time I have to spend fumbling with the dictionary and jbofihe?

No, go for it.

Also, the MUD is multilingual, so you can use English as your
interface if you like (which won't help if people are talking in
Lojban, but still).

> (2) Why is (for example) the "look" command "viska" rather than
> "mi viska" or "ko viska"?

Because the prompt is ".i gau mi > ".  :-)

"mi viska" is currently illegal, but I'm working on that.

-Robin

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