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Re: [lojban] Re: Women in Lojban
At 12:46 AM 9/1/01 +0000, thinkit8@lycos.com wrote:
i would ask, then, if you had any sons that were interested in
lojban? or if anyone here has? i think richard curnow and lojbab
have sons and daughters.
My kids have never shown particular interest in Lojban, and neither seems
especially adept at learning languages (my daughter eked out a D- in first
year Spanish last year) despite having acquired English from their native
Russian (they both lost the Russian relatively quickly after learning
enough English to get by).
would be interesting if perhaps the female
in the same environment might take to lojban. as it is now, i
unfortunately have a dim view of the weaker, stupider gender.
I don't know if I've read all messages in this thread, so in case no one
has mentioned it, both JCB's first wife and daughter were quite
instrumental in the formation of Loglan. His first wife did a lot of the
original efforts at teaching the language before they got divorced (pc may
have more details, but I think he once offered the speculation that a lot
more of Loglan's design came from JCB's first wife than was ever publically
acknowledged), and his daughter Jenny showed some signs at one point of
starting to get native speaker instincts according to JCB (she apparently
spoke the language better than he did for a while), though as she grew
older she almost completely lost interest though she made a couple of later
design contributions in the 80s, including IIRC the case tags that serve
TLI Loglan as a cross between FA and BAI. Jenny is, as far as I know,
still on the Board of Trustees of TLI.
lojbab
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