From thinkit8@lycos.com Sun Sep 02 18:30:25 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: thinkit8@lycos.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2); 3 Sep 2001 01:30:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 73986 invoked from network); 3 Sep 2001 01:30:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 3 Sep 2001 01:30:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n21.groups.yahoo.com) (10.1.2.81) by mta1 with SMTP; 3 Sep 2001 01:30:24 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: thinkit8@lycos.com Received: from [10.1.10.94] by ci.egroups.com with NNFMP; 03 Sep 2001 01:30:24 -0000 Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 01:30:23 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Women in Lojban Message-ID: <9mumff+h06e@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <20010902224519.A432@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 1880 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 24.4.254.136 From: thinkit8@lycos.com good points. i think you are still in england, but in the states there is growing support for home schooling. this type of arrangement would be much better for alternate education like lojban. i agree, sending someone to public school who's first language is lojban would be a disaster. if anybody tries this, it would be very interesting. as for it being bad for the child--i can think of things much worse all around the world that happen to children. if anything, forcing them to learn english spelling is what's abuse :). --- In lojban@y..., Richard Curnow wrote: > My daughter is 15 months old, and hasn't uttered a convincing word of > English yet, let along Lojban! > > My son is 3 years old. I don't think I've ever had enough spoken > fluency in Lojban to make a viable attempt at teaching it to him. Also, > I'm afraid I haven't the conviction to risk turning him into the subject > of a "social experiment" if it all goes horribly wrong in some way! I > think it's fine for an adult to have unusual interests and to have to > defend that fact amongst his/her peer group, but I don't know whether > it's such a good idea to inflict unusual interests and capabilities on a > pre-schooler who hasn't got any say in the matter (bullying etc being > what it is.) > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 12:46:13AM -0000, thinkit8@l... wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > -- > R.P.Curnow,Weston-super-Mare,UK | C++: n., An octopus made by > http://www.rrbcurnow.freeuk.com/ | nailing extra legs on a cat.