Subject: Re: Laadan [was: Re: [lojban] A revised ce'u proposal involving si'o (fwd)

From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 23:19:14 -0400

At 01:45 AM 9/20/01 +0000, michael helsem wrote:
> >From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <[email-masked]>
>
> >Actually, Laadan was more thoroughly designed than you give it credit
> >for. SHE did write it up in a book, and apparently there has been a small
> >circle of people who got to minimal conversational ability with it.
> >
>
>yes; i have the book, & while it's not as thorough as a poet
>might wish, it does lay out enough to get started. and i have
>to say, it is an interesting sketch. but it hasn't received
>the intense usage & development that Klingon (which started
>at about the same point) has seen. i'm not even sure if anyone
>besides the inventor has written in it...

I'm not sure the inventor ever wrote in it (more than teaching examples), 
rather than about it. But she did publish a newsletter in which she 
reported on others who had used it. And she has a discussion on her web page:
http://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin/Laadan.html

Following is one set of writings by another person:
http://www.interlog.com/~kms/Laadan/examples.html

lojbab
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