From ragnarok@pobox.com Sun Jul 15 12:22:18 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: raganok@intrex.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 15 Jul 2001 19:22:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 30135 invoked from network); 15 Jul 2001 19:22:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 15 Jul 2001 19:22:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO intrex.net) (209.42.192.246) by mta1 with SMTP; 15 Jul 2001 19:22:17 -0000 Received: from Craig [209.42.200.34] by intrex.net (SMTPD32-5.05) id AD752C8400AE; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 15:22:29 -0400 Reply-To: To: Subject: Location of Lojbangug Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 15:22:34 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-eGroups-From: "Craig" From: "Craig" coi rodo I've got another theory about lojbangug. If we look at the morphology, it suggests Africa. Bantu languages are the only ones I've ever heard that begin words with sounds like ml and jb and zd. I think that the people of lojbangug were a race of naturalists, who traveled all over the world, and learned of various animals and plants. But, as they did not study the people, they did not pick up game terms. As for terdi, they may have realized the possibility of other planets supporting life, or they may have wanted to say things like 'Earth is the planet of bears as well.' Oddly, the civilization died out, except that modern lojbanguggians seem to live primarily in north america, hence the time zones on messages they send to each other. Also, they forgot some of the gismu for plants, and the language lost some of its color. The language has been revived, but it seems that the cultural revival is going slowly - jbozgi has yet to catch on, and while there is some lojbanguggian literature there is not an overwhelming amount. Poetry is rare but not unheard of in modern lojbangug. Lojban history suggests a war between lojbangug and loglandia around 1988. Lojbangug seems to have won. Lojbanguggian technology was quite advanced, hence the terms for television and computer as root words in the language. --la kreig.daniyl 'segu le bavli temci gi mi'o renvi lo purci .i ga le fonxa janbe gi du mi' -la djimis.BYFet xy.sy. gubmau ckiku cmesanji: 0x5C3A1E74