From thinkit8@lycos.com Fri Aug 31 17:46:17 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: thinkit8@lycos.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2); 1 Sep 2001 00:46:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 72753 invoked from network); 1 Sep 2001 00:46:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 1 Sep 2001 00:46:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n16.groups.yahoo.com) (10.1.1.34) by mta1 with SMTP; 1 Sep 2001 00:46:16 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: thinkit8@lycos.com Received: from [10.1.2.51] by mo.egroups.com with NNFMP; 01 Sep 2001 00:46:15 -0000 Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 00:46:13 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Women in Lojban Message-ID: <9mpb4l+p6n0@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <15d.3dbb06.28c15852@aol.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 1393 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 24.4.254.136 From: thinkit8@lycos.com --- In lojban@y..., pycyn@a... wrote: > None of my wives have though it a sane activity -- once it was clear it > wouldn't get me p&t, and all have refused to learn any of it -- or even what > it was all about (including the present who is writing a tale about what it > is like to live with an obsessive largely on the basis of Lojban and me). My > daughter -- from age 1 on -- also stoutly refused to learn Lojban (an most > anything I else I tried to teach her, for all she did end of taking -- and > liking -- Asian Philosophy). So, despite the contributions of several > females directly or indirectly to Loglan and Lojban, it does seem to be a guy > thing. Not just a geek thing -- though predominantly so -- and my neighbors > resent the notion that geeks can't be mates, though one does find Lojban > interesting enough to stop whatever it is he is doing in redesigning the guts > of his largest computer for a chat about it and the other claims our > yammering makes him lose his place in machine coding. i would ask, then, if you had any sons that were interested in lojban? or if anyone here has? i think richard curnow and lojbab have sons and daughters. would be interesting if perhaps the female in the same environment might take to lojban. as it is now, i unfortunately have a dim view of the weaker, stupider gender. oh, and what's "p&t"?