From lojbab@lojban.org Mon Aug 13 00:07:53 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 13 Aug 2001 07:07:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 903 invoked from network); 13 Aug 2001 07:07:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 13 Aug 2001 07:07:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-3.cais.net) (205.252.14.73) by mta3 with SMTP; 13 Aug 2001 07:07:53 -0000 Received: from user.lojban.org (ppp12.net-A.cais.net [205.252.61.12]) by stmpy-3.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f7D77po49086 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 03:07:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010813012026.00d0bd00@pop.cais.com> X-Sender: vir1036@pop.cais.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 03:06:03 -0400 To: Subject: Re: [lojban] New to lojban, any suggestions? In-Reply-To: References: <9l1op2+k2ts@eGroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 09:38 PM 8/10/01 -0400, Invent Yourself wrote: > > What is the state of Lojbanistan? How many people, and fluent > > speakers, are people happy speaking it? > >As far as I know, there are probably a dozen who can hold a halting verbal >conversation in it. Maybe a dozen more can manage to read and write it & >are learning steadily, and perhaps another dozen can barely read or write >but love to discuss it endlessly. I would suspect that there are a good 30-50 people that could speak the language well enough to handle the level of conversation at LogFest. Probably 100-200 have written a paragraph or more of reasonably good Lojban, many of whom haven't made themselves known to us. Since we've sold over 350 reference grammars at a price that isn't cheap, I would presume that most who have bought the reference grammar would be at the level of "barely read and write" or higher. There are also close to 250 people subscribed to this list, and I'm sure not all of them have bought the reference grammar. Anyone who stays on this list at current traffic volume, even if they are bundling the bulk away for reading "someday" has got to have some serious interest in the language. 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