Re: [lojban] First post :)

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

On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 02:55:24PM -0000, hermite1729 wrote:
> I'm a complete newbie whose only just started learning the
> grammar, but it seems like such a fantastic language 

Welcome!

> (I had no idea constructed languages this big existed), 

Thank you.  We like to think Lojban is pretty well specified.

> I thought I'd give advance warning of lots of annoying newbie-like
> questions and ask if this was the right place for them.

This is fine, but you may want to look at lojban-begginers as well.
See http://lojban.org/resources/forums.html

> It seems like quite a challenge to become fluent at it despite the
> motivation of it being such a clear and well defined language, so
> I must admit I'm curious how many people speak it

Define "speak it".

> I guess it's no coincidence that each of these have developed
> their own extensive vocabularies and visual notations, but could
> we demonstrate that lojban can communicate these more
> effectively/efficiently than english?

That sounds like a wonderful research project!  When do you start?
:-)

> Go in particular is a game with a very large online community from
> a great many countries, that is itself very much like a visual
> language, and learning Go is often compared with learning a
> language (an old name for Go is "shou tan" menaing "hand talk"). 

I'm actually writing a story in which a robot is about to explain Go
to, umm, well, a one of these:
http://www.orionsarm.com/clades/Sailors.html

I'm not releasing the story yet, but I could post the explanation of
Go here if people are interested.  Once I'm done.

> Can all the terms in these six areas be introduced into lojban
> solely by the addition of more cmene and tanru or would it be much
> more complicated?

Mostly fu'ivla and lujvo, but yes.

-Robin

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