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

["Philip Newton" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

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>