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[lojban-beginners] Re: FW: lojban talks! (fwd)

For those just joining us, here's the website I am referring to:
http://www.loveandplutonium.com/

Love & Plutonium contains 7,030 words of English dialogue, if you
include Dr. Medlo's written To-Do list. That's only 500 more words
than True Extremes. I was tickled by this story and would be willing
to put my efforts toward the translation. What do the rest of you
think? Our first task would be to figure out how to say plutonium! How
about {lo sovomoi selratni}?

I'd also like to somehow derive a list of all the individual words
used in this text. I wish I knew how to do that.

-epkat

On 7/13/06, Bruce Webber <brucewebber@fastmail.us> wrote:

Here is the Love and Plutonium script. Enjoy!

------------ Forwarded Message ------------
Date: Thursday, July 13, 2006 10:11 PM -0400
From: Jeff Priskorn <jeff@smarmyland.com>
To: 'Bruce Webber' <brucewebber@fastmail.us>, jjfloyd@rocketmail.com
Cc: 'John Kerr' <johnkerr@wowway.com>
Subject: RE: FW: lojban talks!

Bruce,

This sounds like a very interesting project. We'd be pleased to have you
take a look at the L&P script (attached). Let us know if you need anything
else!

Thanks,
Hank & Little Liberty :)

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Bruce Webber
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Jeff Priskorn" <jeff@smarmyland.com>
To: "'Bruce Webber'" <brucewebber@fastmail.us>, <jjfloyd@rocketmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:11:43 -0400
Subject: RE: FW: lojban talks!
Bruce,

This sounds like a very interesting project. We'd be pleased to have you
take a look at the L&P script (attached). Let us know if you need anything
else!

Thanks,
Hank & Little Liberty :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Webber [mailto:brucewebber@fastmail.us]
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 1:38 PM
To: jjfloyd@rocketmail.com; jeff@smarmyland.com
Cc: John Kerr
Subject: Re: FW: lojban talks!


> Bruce, Jeff. Jeff, Bruce. Bruce, Jacquie, Jacquie, Bruce. Jeff,
> Jacquie, Jacquie Jeff. I'm Jebby, I'll be playing the role of "guy who
> shares email address for latest crazy idea." Keep me in the loop!
>
> -Jebs

Hi Jacquie and Jeff,

I'm learning a spoken language called lojban (pronounced "LOZHbahn") - it's
a constructed (invented) language. You can learn more about it at

    http://www.lojban.org

Lojban means "logical language" - it tries to be regular, unambiguous and
culturally neutral. Lojban has been around in it's current form since the
80's, and existed as Loglan since the 60's. There aren't too many people
that speak it, but books have been translated into it (Alice in Wonderland)
and written in it (le nicte cadzu - The Night Walkers).

Lately there has been interest in translating a film into Lojban, and
dubbing the voice and doing subtitles. This would be helpful for Lojban
students, and would be - well, unique :)

Jebby offered "True Extremes" and there is some interest in that, but some
people in the community think it's too dark. We looked at "Arbor Daze", but
there is too much technical jargon which would be hard to translate. "Love
and Plutonium" comes to mind as a fun movie. Would you be willing to let us
look at this?

If so, we would first take a look at the script - people may not want to
tackle it if it's too long (the Lojban community is not that large).

Thanks!

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Bruce Webber
brucewebber@fastmail.us
http://brucewebber.us