From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jun 06 10:50:44 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 6 Jun 2001 17:50:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 15593 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2001 17:49:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 6 Jun 2001 17:49:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta3 with SMTP; 6 Jun 2001 17:49:55 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 157hRK-0004KP-00 for ; Wed, 06 Jun 2001 10:49:54 -0700 Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 10:49:54 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] RE: Rabbity Sand-Laugher Message-ID: <20010606104954.R7842@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010605164547.00d62470@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010605164547.00d62470@127.0.0.1> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i From: Robin Lee Powell On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 05:04:36PM -0400, Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote: > At 04:37 PM 06/04/2001 -0400, pycyn@aol.com wrote: > >In a message dated 6/4/2001 12:09:35 PM Central Daylight Time, > >xod@sixgirls.org writes: > >>.i la'aru'e vu'enaidai le xa'o troci cu burna le selfrati be do > > > >Maybe, but people always ask for advice and comment. They shouldn't, if they > >are going to get huffy and quit just because the first show it wide of the > >mark. Of course, they should not publish their first shot until they have > >some reason to think they are going to do a fair job of it. > > I will disagree with this. We WANT new people learning the language to try > to write in Lojban - anything, whether it be translation or original > writing. By the way, there's some strong evidence that the reason that children are better at learning languages is their willingness to make mistakes. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/