From lojbab@lojban.org Wed Sep 19 20:22:30 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 20 Sep 2001 03:22:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 93049 invoked from network); 20 Sep 2001 03:22:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by 10.1.1.220 with QMQP; 20 Sep 2001 03:22:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-1.cais.net) (205.252.14.71) by mta2 with SMTP; 20 Sep 2001 03:22:28 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (ppp18.net-A.cais.net [205.252.61.18]) by stmpy-1.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f8K3MRH07592 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 23:22:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010919230324.00df1610@pop.cais.com> X-Sender: vir1036@pop.cais.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 23:19:14 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Laadan [was: Re: [lojban] A revised ce'u proposal involving si'o (fwd) In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 01:45 AM 9/20/01 +0000, michael helsem wrote: > >From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" > > >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 -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org