From lojbab@lojban.org Thu Jun 15 14:30:11 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29968 invoked from network); 15 Jun 2000 21:30:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 15 Jun 2000 21:30:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-2.cais.net) (205.252.14.72) by mta1 with SMTP; 15 Jun 2000 21:30:09 -0000 Received: from bob (99.dynamic.cais.com [207.226.56.99]) by stmpy-2.cais.net (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e5FLU7g77259 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 17:30:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lojbab@lojban.org) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000615172243.00b4b100@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 17:30:59 -0400 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Hello from a newbie! In-Reply-To: <8iabf9+ps29@eGroups.com> References: <0006150053440B.01046@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 10:34 AM 06/15/2000 +0000, you wrote: >--- In lojban@egroups.com, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > > >With luck I'll fair better with lojban than I did with German. :-) > > > > Vier fünfmal vervierfacht macht mehr als fünf viermal >verfünffacht. Li vo te'a > > mu pi'i vo zmadu li mu te'a vo pi'i mu. > >Oh boy, oh boy! Where did you pick up all *that* German!!! Although >totally correct (I never heard that before) your teachers >really must have - successfully - tried to chase their students away >from *that* language! There are reasons why Americans never learn foreign languages, and one of the main ones is that the textbooks present us with the most stultifying versions possible. I learned far more German trying to read a one chapter of a German astronomy textbook with a dictionary than I did in a year of classroom German. I still have memorized part of a dialogue from my German class from 1968. It is wonderful should I ever be a student asking another about going with them to the library to return a book. Something I doubt that I ever did in English even (what - I need an escort to walk to the library now?). 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