Re: [lojban] Supporting Lojbanic babies.

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

On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 10:06:38AM -0600, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:57 AM, Robin Lee Powell <
> rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > I have recently had the pleasure to witness the birth of my two
> > amazing girl infants.
> >
> 
> Congratulations!
> 
> 
> > The mother is permitting me (it was a requirement of my helping
> > her have kids, actually) to natter at them in Lojban, with the
> > intention of them learning it as a language in the usual way
> > (i.e. by having it around, rather than by explicit teaching).
> > This will be a bit wonky as I'm the only person in the household
> > who speaks it, but it'll be interesting, at least.
> >
> 
> I'm sorry, the wording is a bit unclear. Is she requiring you, or
> are you requiring her to let you, natter in Lojban?

The latter.  She thinks it's pretty silly.  :)

> > Now, having said that, while I'm pretty good with the language, I
> > have the same sorts of problems as everybody else: I get stuck
> > saying things because I don't have the vocabulary or because of lack
> > of idiom.
> >
> > This sort of thing takes a fair bit of effort to overcome (I've been
> > known to spend multiple hours creating a new word, for example), and
> > I don't have a lot of spare effort available, because, as previously
> > mentioned, I'm *raising infant twins*.  This limits my available
> > time.  Pretty extremely.
> >
> > It is likely that the Lojban community has some pretty strong
> > interest in helping out with this project.  :)
> >
> > So, if you'd like to help, here's what I'd like:
> >
> > 1.  An indication here if you'd be willing to help with vocab/idiom
> > issues.  My ideal here would be that I send a post here (perhaps
> > with "jboverba" in the subject always?) with "I tried to say "why is
> > your lip quivering?" today and failed" or so, and y'all figure it
> > out, and I ignore the thread, and then someone emails me directly
> > with the result.  Knowing that there's a pool of people willing to
> > help there would be lovely.
> >
> 
> Sounds good to me. I volunteer to be email-you-guy.

Lovely.

-Robin

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