Re: Promoting Lojban

[Robin Turner <robin@bilkent.edu.tr>]

la xod. cusku di'e


>
> > Well, one of my looooong-term projects is a philosophical
> novel with three
> > characters (all of whom are basically aspects of myself).
> One is a philosophy
> > lecturer who is having problems expressing her own
> philosophy, one's an English
> > teacher with a hang-up about modal verbs (c.f. General
> Semantics) and one's a
> > tantric yogini looking for a culturally neutral mysticism.
> They meet up at a course
> > in guess which language?  I'm not doing any work on it at the
> moment, partly because
> > I hardly have enough time to keep up with my masses of
> e-mail, let alone write a
> > novel, and partly because I doubt if anyone outside this list
> would want to read it.
>
> True. But there are dozens of revered books being taught in
> colleges that
> were received the same way in their days.

{zo'o} and still not being read by very many people, even
students.  I was an adept at going to tutorials and discursing
wisely on books I hadn't read.  Seriously though, the main
problem is time.  I'm even feeling guilty sitting here writing
e-mails instead of {.ei} translating stuff on ceramics for my
wife.

co'o mi'e robin.