From pycyn@aol.com Sat Apr 15 02:02:58 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18466 invoked from network); 15 Apr 2000 09:02:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 15 Apr 2000 09:02:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo17.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.7) by mta1 with SMTP; 15 Apr 2000 09:02:57 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo17.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v25.3.) id h.c8.3a11d37 (3847) for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 05:02:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 05:02:53 EDT Subject: Lojban as alioplanetic To: lojban@onelist.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows sub 33 X-eGroups-From: Pycyn@aol.com From: pycyn@aol.com Not a RECORD, but as I was trying to find something to save from the discussion of Lojban as SPIQ (or whatever the Vulcan word for Vulcan language is) -- a task at which I have so far failed -- I remembered asking you all for some help in vetting Tyrushian (I think it was), the language for another product, Invasion America, in which Harve Bennett and Ruel Fischmann had their thumbs. No one took me up on it, I recall, and the the resulting language, "Yoooosh!" included, ended sounding rather like Yiddish (or Indian in the Blazing Saddle tradition). Oddly, that is one of the languages people say that Lojban sounds like, along with Albanian and nameless neareastern (though my favorite is "Italian with a Russian accent" which brings us back to Albanian, I suppose). Any how, y'all have had your chance at Lojban and Trekkie talk, so give it a rest. (The idea that logical communication would bring peace is an interesting SW hypothesis, though --- however much it flies in the face of the experience of logic society meetings.) pc