[lojban] Re: LNC now longest Lojban work.

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 04:37:39PM -0300, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> On 5/3/05, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > "la nicte cadzu", the horror story I've been writing, is now the
> > longest Lojban work ever, at just over 32, 000 words.
> > 
> > You can read it at
> > 
> > http://www.teddyb.org/~rlpowell/hobbies/lojban/palm/la%20nicte%20cadzu/index.html
> > 
> > The next closest contenders are "la alis. cizra je cinri zukte
> > vi le selmacygu'e" at about 31, 100 words, and the text for "la
> > nuntalyli'u" (the Colossal Caves Adventure game) at about 8, 600
> > words.
> 
> There's also certain copyright violating translation that must be
> around those figures.

Really?  Can you get an exact number?  Not that I support such a
thing, but I'm curious.

> > So, what's my next target?  :-)
> 
> If I were to translate Through the Looking Glass, would that be
> added to the adventures, or would it have to count as a separate
> work? :)

I'd consider that a single work for this purpose, and I hope you
will be equally generous when I extend LNC into multiple books.  :-)

> > Anyone know what the longest work in Klingon is?  Or Esperanto?  
> 
> The Bible maybe?

Has the bible been done in Klingon?  The longest Amazon has is
Hamlet.

FWIW, the bible I got from gutenberg.net is ~100, 000 words.

Esperanto apparently has a 450 page book
(http://www.esperanto.ie/english/zaft/zaft(19).htm), but I have no
idea how to translate arbitrary book sizes in to word counts.  I
vaguely remember than 250 words per page is used as a rule of thumb,
in which case I've got a long way to go, because that's 112, 500
words.

> > OBWarning:
> > 
> > Please bear in mind that in American movie terms, LNC is without
> > question rated NC 17 for graphic violence, mature themes, and
> > graphic sexuality, if not actually rated X (I'm currently 1, 000
> > words into a sex scene).  (For non-americans, see
> > http://excaliburfilms.com/movieratings_pop.htm)  Minors are
> > *not* invited to read LNC.
> 
> That's an excellent way of enticing minors to read something, pity
> there are none around to read it :)

I've met at least two minors (defined in my jurisdiction as under 18
years of age) on #lojban, actually, so I think you're mistaken
there.

-Robin

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