Re: [lojban] everyday lojban

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

On Saturday I threw a party. Most of the people there know that I
speak Lojban. At one point some of my friends started singing a simple
repetitive song which could be sung in many styles. One singer invents
a style and everyone repeats after them. After they invented several
styles, one of them said, "Matt, sing it in Lojban!" And to my
amazement and their delight, I could, and they followed along.

I would not have done that if none of them had known what the language was.

-epkat

On 9/27/06, Andrii Zvorygin <andrii.z@gmail.com> wrote:
> .a'u I was just wondering if anyone here uses lojban when speaking (or
> typing/e-mailing) to people that don't already know about lojban. If not
> were you planning on it?
>
> .o'acu'e I myself try to throw in an attitudinal with translation in all my
> emails(all the recent ones i can recall), though .o'anai I rarely use
> attitudinals otherwise, ku'i .a'o pe'i I'm slowly improving and now use .ui
> every now and again in speech, I've been thinking of telling the bus driver
> something along the lines of ".a'o do se xamgu I mean i hope good things for
> you", or some such. I think advertising Lojban is a simple and worthwhile
> lojban.
>
> What do you think?
>
> click reply below zo'onai.ai.ui I can hardly wait to find out