From robin@BILKENT.EDU.TR Thu May 04 07:31:56 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11819 invoked from network); 4 May 2000 14:31:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 4 May 2000 14:31:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO firat.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr) (139.179.10.13) by mta3 with SMTP; 4 May 2000 14:31:37 -0000 Received: from bilkent.edu.tr (IDENT:robin@fast3.fen.bilkent.edu.tr [139.179.97.28]) by firat.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e44EXk613999 for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 17:33:46 +0300 (EET DST) Sender: robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR Message-ID: <39142C7C.8B5ABCE9@bilkent.edu.tr> Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 17:30:20 +0300 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] slashdot.org gives Lojban a push References: <4.2.2.20000501214024.00b28100@127.0.0.1> <4.2.2.20000502120831.00a1cec0@127.0.0.1> <4.2.2.20000504044339.00b2c850@127.0.0.1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Robin turner > la lojbab. cusku di'e > >Also, I'm learning lojban via English, and usually translate lojban into > >English instead of my native German, which doesn't help the issue > >either. I guess I'd like to see a lot of the lojban learning material > >available in all the gismu source languages as well as other languages, > >especially French and German, so we can offer native stuff to as many > >prospective lojban learners as possible. > > Wouldn't we all. Esperanto is a reasonable priority too since we have many > Esperantists and it would reach people already interested in artificial > languages. Anyone who wants a task less formidable than _The Complete Lojban Language_ or the gismu list is welcome to have a go at my beginners' course. This would be more of a rewrite than a translation, though, since much of it is geared towards English speakers. Someone offered to do a Swedish version, but I don@t know how far he got with it. Oh yes, and I know it's _still_ not finished. On the rare occasions that I have time and cognitive steam to work on it, I keep getting stuck on the connectives lesson - it was going fine until we had all those postings about counterfactuals. co'o m i'e robin.