Re: [lojban] Dialects

[Stela Selckiku <selckiku@gmail.com>]

2010/9/11 Krzysztof Sobolewski <jezuch@interia.pl>:
>
> I was wondering how would one simulate different dialects, slangs etc., because I am kinda
> planning to translate something that would require this. Emphasizing terminators and
> emphasizing {cu} is one way to differentiate the language. Do you know of any others?

I wouldn't go so far as to call the variations in the way we speak
Lojban "dialects", I would just call them "styles".  There aren't
really any separate speaking communities that have been diverging.
There's slightly different Lojban spoken on the mailing list vs IRC,
but on the whole it's spoken two different ways by the exact same
people, so I'm inclined to think of it as stylistic differences in a
single dialect.  When we get a localized speaking community having
regular RL meetings (looks like the Bay Area might be first?) it'll be
interesting to see if any local distinctions emerge.

There's a lot of ways to make stylistic varations in Lojban; it's a
very flexible language.  You can lean more towards phrases made of
gismu or towards lujvo.  You can use more tanru or you can use more
cmavo.  You can speak in choppy sentences or longer ones.  There's so
many different possibilities in the grammar that you can make a
distinctive style of speaking by emphasizing any of them.  For
instance in my novel in (slow) progress, la mafro'i, there are some
crida who have a distinctive style of Lojban and one feature they
emphasize is the form "lo lo lo broda ku brode ku brodi", like "mu'i
ma do klama lo lo lo mafro'i ku crida ku tumla", why have you come to
the land related to the spirits who are related to the magic rocks?

mi'e la stela selckiku
mu'o

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