Re: FW: [lojban] Book Idea: ko ko ctuca fo la .lojban. bau la .lojban.

[Brook Conner <me@nellardo.com>]

On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 10:11  PM, Craig wrote:
> > Inspired by the Esperanto Autodidakte, I think Lojban should have
> > one too.  This is a book[1] that teaches a language without using
> > any language but itself to do so.  It starts off as a picture book
> > with captions.

I like the idea a great deal.

> > My current idea is to have the first two pictures introduce la
> > .alis. and la .bab., and then have them meet each other and so on,
> > but that's just a sketchy framework.

Would it not be more "lojbanic" to choose names that were less clearly 
derivatives of common English names?

> > If no-one else wants to do this, I'll probably take a crack at it
> > eventually, but I wanted to throw it out to the community in case
> > someone else wants to start work.

I'm certainly interested....

Barring clip-art or photo-shoot solutions, I'll volunteer to do 
illustrations.

> > I think easily available clip art would suffice for most of our
> > pictorial needs.
>
> In general I love the idea; however, I think most easily-availible 
> clipart
> will be under copyright.

Almost certainly, though some has relatively liberal licensing. Some of 
the Dover collections come to mind. Especially if the product isn't for 
sale..... Any lojbanists who also happen to be professional designers 
might have access to stock photo collections with quite open licensing 
(once you've paid hundreds of dollars or more for a collection, you can 
pretty much do what you want with it).

However, clip art might have the problem of continuity. Finding a 
series of pictures with identical individuals doing the right things 
for the story will be hard.....

> Maybe at the next LogFest we have a photoshoot,
> using Lojbanists in attendance to play la .alis. and la .bab.?

Of course, contrary to my early suggestion about "lojbanic" names, 
there's a couple of pretty obvious stand-ins for la .alis. and la .bab. 
at a typical LogFest, isn't there?

>  Better yet,
> we could have a book of true tales from LogFest, with photos!

Perhaps that's a separate book, or a later chapter or installment of 
the Autodidakte?


Brook