AW: [lojban] Re: Are there Members from Germany in this Group?

[Goetz.Kluge@infineon.com]

Hi Philip and others,

Sorry for my somehow edgy answer.
I hope, that one day I can answer in lojban too.

I think, "normal" working people in these days are quite busy.
In order to be successful, lojban has to be learned by such average people.
It is difficult to do this just based on the nice publications available now
from www.lojban.org.

Here in Munich I don't find anybody.
So I try something else:
I know someone here, who is good in languages.
It's his hobby. He knows 8 languages pretty well.
I try to get him interested in lojban.
Perhaps I'll learn from him later ;-)

Best regards
Goetz




-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org [mailto:lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org] Im
Auftrag von Philip Newton
Gesendet: Dienstag, 10. Februar 2004 13:45
An: lojban-list@lojban.org
Betreff: [lojban] Re: Are there Members from Germany in this Group?


On 10 Feb 2004 at 12:58, Goetz.Kluge@infineon.com wrote:

> Good boy, Philip. Very impressive.

I asssume that's sarcasm?

> I think I understand the difficulties of at least one Lojbanist
> (Philip) and won't jump to conclusions on how inviting the rest of you 
> behaves.

I'm not sure what difficulties you mean. Apologies if I offended you. I 
suppose I should not have been so smart-alecky to reply in Lojban.

Here's a translation:

> On 9 Feb 2004 at 17:29, Goetz Kluge wrote:
> 
> > Are there Members from Germany in this Group?
> 
> .i go'i

"Yes."

> mu'o mi'e .filip. noi dotco le ka ce'u jbena gi'e xabju kei gi'e ku'i
> glico le ka natmi ce'u

"End of this message; over to you to reply. I am Philip, who is German 
by birth and by dwelling [i.e. who was born in Germany and who lives 
there], but is British by nationality."

I grew up bilingually, so you can talk to me in German, too, if you 
prefer.

There's also someone else - "biorn." or Björn Gohla ( 
http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~bjoern/index.html ), but I haven't seen 
him around in a while. I believe he's also German; he is certainly 
German-speaking.

See also http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-
index.php?page=Meeting%20other%20lojbanists (or http://xrl.us/bf8k if 
that link wraps for you), which lists another couple of Lojbanists in 
Germany (search for "dotygu'e").

> Sorry, I am just a possible newcomer and don't understand your answer 
> yet.

Apologies.

> Could someone give me a hint to a mailing list where Lojbanists could 
> be addressed by newcomers in English?

The lojban-beginners mailing list? Though Lojban is also used there 
occasionally, there is a lot of English. See 
http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/ to subscribe. But this mailing list should 
also be fine.

> Then I won't bother lojban gurus with English questions.

I'm not a guru; apologies again if I convey that impression. My 
knowledge is fairly basic.

mu'o mi'e .filip.
-- 
filip.niutyn. <pnewton@gmx.de>