From candide@urbanium.tv Fri Jan 18 04:56:17 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: candide@urbanium.tv X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 18 Jan 2002 12:56:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 6261 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2002 12:56:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m11.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 18 Jan 2002 12:56:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO urbanium.urbanium.tv) (194.183.224.155) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Jan 2002 12:56:16 -0000 Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:56:29 +0100 Subject: Re: timezones for talking (was Re: [lojban] on the fone?) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v480) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.480) Received: from 212.68.238.139.brutele.be ([212.68.238.139]) by urbanium.urbanium.tv (JAMES SMTP Server 1.2.1rc2) with SMTP ID 154 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:56:14 +0100 From: Candide Kemmler X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92614944 > I wonder what sort of company it is where people are interested in > Lojban! :-) It's more friends then colleagues, actually; although there *are* some colleagues participating. Those people are curious and as such, you cannot (yet) consider them real lojban recruits. Speaking for myself, I'm not yet up to learning the language either. I rather consider it a technology for the moment, and I think that's an idea that makes people curious about lojban, and might even encourage them to learn it sometime. It's "the language of the future, the one we'll use to talk with R2D2"... AND besides, it's an interesting beast, being formally defined, free of ambiguity, etc... Still, the main issue is about humans and machines to become friends. When we meet on SpeakFreely (monday 5-8 PM CET, I hope), I think people will want to hear lojban spoken, they will ask questions about the logic behind lojban, they'll want to know how to express feelings with lojban and hear poetry... That sort of things. Candide Kemmler PS: BTW, making progress with the diphone recordings...