Re: lojban newbie: an outsider looking in

["Michal Wallace (sabren)" <sabren@manifestation.com>]

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Jorge Llambias wrote:

> >There is some kind of magical trick
> >to this process that ensures that no two lojban words are ever the same.
> 
> Not magical, but admittedly a little more complicated
> than it need have been.

Having read a bit more... I think it makes a lot of sense.. 
I'm still not clear whether all gismu have the same patterns for
their rafsi or not. Given a gismu you've never seen, should you
be able to tell the rafsi?

> Yes, please do! For example, someone just asked for the
> meaning of {ta'u}. I would love to be able to do a search
> to find out how many times {ta'u} has been used (if ever)
> and with which of the two alternative meanings. We have
> a pretty large corpus of Lojban text by now, but, as you say,
> very difficult to use.

I'll see what I can do..

> We're probably stuck with it as the official logo, but nothing
> stops you or anyone else from creating and using a better
> one, and if it catches on, it will become the unofficial logo...

:) I don't know if it's any better, but I put a flag for an imaginary
country I made up for a story a few years ago on my lojban site.. I
kind of like the story behind the venn diagram and the arrows,
though. 

Cheers,

- Michal
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