From lojbab@lojban.org Thu Jul 05 20:13:18 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 6 Jul 2001 03:13:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 90309 invoked from network); 6 Jul 2001 03:13:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 6 Jul 2001 03:13:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-5.cais.net) (205.252.14.75) by mta1 with SMTP; 6 Jul 2001 03:13:14 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (17.dynamic.cais.com [207.226.56.17]) by stmpy-5.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f663DD274099 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 23:13:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010705230222.00bc8c60@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 23:17:50 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: URGENT HELP WANTED! Reviewers for Nick's lessons Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: Bob LeChevalier-Logical Language Group Nick reports to me that a couple hundred people have downloaded some or all of his lessons. Unfortunately only a couple of people have given him any comments on them. He is strongly desirous of finalizing the book before he gets drawn off into non-Lojban professional work for an extended period of time, and the latter could happen within days or weeks. Thus, if you are reading the lessons, and are willing to comment on them for any of 1) typos, 2) Lojban technical errors, 3) suitability of the various units for teaching you who are Lojban novices, and 4) instances of English idiom that are confusing to any of you who are non-native speakers, I'd like you to let both Nick (and me) know that you are doing so, what part of the text (if not the whole thing) that you can get reviewed in a reasonably short time, and when you would expect to be done with that review so that we can budget time based on reasonable expectations of when people will have comments. I am especially concerned that we not end up with several people reviewing the first couple of chapters and no one getting to the end, so people who have actually read the whole set of lessons might want to consider focusing their comments on later lessons. We need some serious commitments from several people. The Reference Grammar went through an extended 2 year period of comments on drafts followed by 9 months of formatting and indexing before we were able to publish. Nick's available time is a couple of orders of magnitude less than that. My goal right now is to have be as close to final as possible before LogFest at the end of this month, at which gathering we will make some major publication decisions. It is probably reasonable that we can then have books to sell before the end of the year. 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