First post :)

["hermite1729" <hermite1729@yahoo.co.uk>]

Hi there,

I'm a complete newbie whose only just started learning the grammar, 
but it seems like such a fantastic language (I had no idea 
constructed languages this big existed), I thought I'd give advance 
warning of lots of annoying newbie-like questions and ask if this 
was the right place for them.

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 and how the number 
of people communicating with it can be increased.

The interests in which I've found english to be most awkward, 
ambiguous or inefficient to communicate in so far include:

mathematics
chess and go (baduk, wei chi)
music theory
algorithms
science in general
programming patterns

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?
Would trying to slowly convince one of these communities be a good 
step in evangelising lojban :)

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"). 

Large numbers of players are from China, Japan, Korea, USA and 
Europe, the large number of terms and sayings are different in each, 
so a common language would be wonderful. Also the community has a 
great interest in how they communicate and teach different aspects 
of the game to each other, and, efficiency is one of the most 
important aspects of actually playing Go well. Anyhow, just an 
idea :)

http://senseis.xmp.net/?StartingPoints
http://www.kiseido.com

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?

.u'e.a'u.ui

cmalu lijda
(Paul Kirby(?))