Re: proverbs and parables

[Logical Language Group <lojbab@lojban.org>]

>In the long term, it would be nice to see a sizeable collection from
>a variety of languages/cultures which (after proofreading, of
>course) could go on the FTP site or even be published as a booklet
>(I recently read a posting on the Auxlang list that over 30,000
>books had been published in Esperanto, so we've got a way to go yet
>- though of course this could just be symptomatic of Esperantists'
>tendency to wild exaggeration!).  Such a collection would put some
>weight behind Lojban's claim to be culturally neutral, and would
>also be encouraging in the sense that by learning Lojban one can
>read texts from a wide variety of cultures which will not always
>exist in English (or other natlang) translation.

The technical term for such a book is called a chrestomathy (sp?)
and it is onme of the 6 odd books already planned for, albeit probably
the last one.  We indeed want to have a collection of Lojban texts for
people.  We also want a variety of authors and source languages/cultures.
In order to have quality writing of course, we need to wait till we have
speakers all over who are producing such texts.  You and Jorge and others
posting recently show that we are starting to build that community of
people skilled in the language who are not "Lojban Central".

lojbab
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