From graywyvern@hotmail.com Mon Jan 29 11:42:13 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: graywyvern@hotmail.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_2_1); 29 Jan 2001 19:42:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 67560 invoked from network); 29 Jan 2001 19:33:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 29 Jan 2001 19:33:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.237.242) by mta1 with SMTP; 29 Jan 2001 19:33:02 -0000 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:33:02 -0800 Received: from 209.176.48.43 by lw7fd.law7.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 19:33:01 GMT X-Originating-IP: [209.176.48.43] To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] New poll for lojban Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 19:33:01 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Jan 2001 19:33:02.0046 (UTC) FILETIME=[4B26AFE0:01C08A2A] From: "michael helsem" Well, my old username & password won't work; & they won't let me use my old username with a new password, so i guess i'll just post my answers HERE. >From: lojban@yahoogroups.com li'o >What is/are the main reason(s) for your >interest in Lojban? > > o I like the sounds of the language (euphony) > o I like the internal structure of the language (bridi instead of >sentences, tanru, collapsing nouns, adjectives, adverbs and verbs into >selbri, having both time and space tenses, etc.) tugni > o I would like to see Lojban put to use in a test of the Sapir-Whorf >hypothesis > o I would like to see Lojban put to use in the AI/NLP field (e.g. >human/computer-interactions, knowledge database systems) > o Because of Lojban's cultural neutrality and lack of ambiguity, it >should be promoted as an international auxillary language (as a competitor >of Esperanto) > o Because of Lojban's cultural neutrality and lack of ambiguity, it >should be promoted as the international language of science > o Lojban allows me to think differently, or more clearly > o Lojban is a difficult language, and I want to prove to myself that I >am smart enough to learn it > o Out of respect for James Cooke Brown and the work he put into his >language, I wish to > o I like all artificial languages; Lojban is just one of many languages >that I am interested in cumki > o Other reasons _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com