[lojban] Re: Request For Help; non-urgent research request to help Lojban.

[Lindar <lindarthebard@yahoo.com>]

http://www.lojban.org/tiki/conversation+guide

This is the initial page, which is meant as a combination pseudo-
official pseudo-proposal and starting point for the project. I
encourage everybody to start nailing down their favourite topics of
discussion (keep in mind the page is in en-uk so spell things
correctly!! =P ) so we have a nice big list of what our users like to
discuss, and once we have an idea of that, we can start fleshing out
these pages, pulling everything useful that we can from jvs, and
documenting everything that we -don't- have so we can start efforts to
develop vocabulary for these areas of discussion.

I think it's ridiculous that we didn't have a word for 'kitchen' (or
at least a documented one) up until recently, though because of this
very reason it doesn't surprise me that we have between zero and one-
half full-time speakers. How can anybody use this as a home language
when we don't have any words for anything around said home? Once we
have a larger body of language and a guide to it, we'll have a larger
body of citable conversation, and then we can adequately develop a
dictionary based on frequently used fu'ivla and lujvo because we'll
actually have more than five people in the entire world speaking
strictly in Lojban.

(Please ignore my gross exaggerations, I'm simply illustrating a
point.)

Please feel free to rend this project in twain, completely rewrite the
page, and reinvent everything entirely. The point is not to do
everything exactly how I want, but to have a fun project that will
encourage people to not only develop the large body of vocabulary that
we're so obviously missing, but to USE IT once it's there and have a
simple way to find it. So, if anybody has a better idea of how to
accomplish that, by all means boot my idea aside and let's do it, but
jvs is definitely not doing the trick right now (IMHO).

Leo and Oren, thank you for your words of enthusiasm. I look forward
to seeing what ideas spring forth.
Bob, thank you for your words of wisdom, caution, and various Roman
characters that sorta blend together to almost look like words. I'm
sure with your background and history you can suggest a great number
of words for vocabulary and guide the process with what you've learned
from working with Lojban for as long as you have.

So, let's see how this turns out, eh?

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