[lojban] Re: How many fluent speakrs of Lojban are there?

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 07:52:33AM -0700, arpgme wrote:
> 
> How many fluent speakrs of Lojban are there?
> 
> To me, Lojban seems too logical and non-natural for me to learn
> fluently.

Define "fluent".

Using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILR_scale as a standard:

There are perhaps 1-3 dozen people who are level 2, or could be with
some brushing up and listening to an hour or two of conversation.

There are somewhere between 5 and 10 people who are level 3 for the
most part (again, possibly with some brushing up; I know I'd need
some).

The problem is that Lojban is almost entirely lacking in level 3
*vocabulary*, let alone level 4.  This makes it really hard to
define "fluency": if you know every word in the language, but you
still can't talk about your computer refusing to boot because
there's a single bit error in the second RAM chip, well, are you
fluent or not?

This is something we're putting some effort into.

-Robin

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