From arosta@uclan.ac.uk Mon Sep 03 06:19:47 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: arosta@uclan.ac.uk X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2); 3 Sep 2001 13:19:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 91449 invoked from network); 3 Sep 2001 13:19:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 3 Sep 2001 13:19:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO com1.uclan.ac.uk) (193.61.255.3) by mta3 with SMTP; 3 Sep 2001 13:19:45 -0000 Received: from gwise-gw1.uclan.ac.uk by com1.uclan.ac.uk with SMTP (Mailer); Mon, 3 Sep 2001 13:57:56 +0100 Received: from DI1-Message_Server by gwise-gw1.uclan.ac.uk with Novell_GroupWise; Mon, 03 Sep 2001 14:26:18 +0100 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5.2 Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 14:26:09 +0100 To: lojban Subject: RE: [lojban] Re: Women in Lojban Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline From: And Rosta craig #>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.) # #But you might run into similar problems with any uncommon language - if th= e #kid comes to school and greets the class first in Rromani, or Maori, or #Farsi, would the result really be any different from lojban? In some #cultures, I think, a child with one of those native languages might be #bullied even more than a jbojbe - imagine a child in Eastern Europe whose #Rromani was better than the local language, for example. It's not the speaking of a foreign lanuuage per se; at my son's school the majority of children aren't native speakers of English. I think what Richard means is that any sort of eccentricity is prone to persecution by children at a certain age. By this criterion, being middleclass, swotty, wussy or fat count as eccentricities.=20 I would teach my son about Lojban if he were interested, but I doubt he will be; he seems too well-balanced and well-adjusted to be susceptible to that sort of perversion. --And.