Lojban lessons

[robinturner]

Just found that my Lojban course, which I put in the capapble hands of Nick Nicholas, has a new version (it it were a program this would probably be 0.9.8). From my modest beginnings, it has now grown to over 200 pages. Wow, that's a real book! You can find it here.

For the uninitiated - Lojban is a constructed language based (partly) on predicate logic - sort of esperanto for geeks. One of thngs I like about it is that despite its logical structure, it has a whole class of words for expressing emotions, managing discourse etc. My occasional "current mood" comments are in Lojban.

Comments

[hyperina.livejournal.com]

do you think geekdom is enough of a cultural entity to sustain thsi language? That'd be cool if it were. I guess that's why esperanto failed -- it didn't have a strong enough cultural basis, or something?

p.s. I haven't clicked on the link yet, I will do that now and then maybe my questions will be answered. yay!

[sepiamind.livejournal.com]

sheer geekdom has been enough to sustain lojban since the 1950s!

there's some use of lojban for names/cultural references in the
interlace (http://eve.speakeasy.net/~yara/int/begin.htm) project, a collaborative writing epic that took place within the larger scrytch project.

[hyperina.livejournal.com]

cool! I guess the geeks I know aren't the elite geeks, then, since most of htem don't use lojban. :(

[solri.livejournal.com]

For a while I ran a cyberpunk-tpye RPG. In the world I created, the main world languages were Spanglish for popular culture, Hanzi/Kanji for commerce and Lojban for technology. Mainly we just used Lojban for character's names (Solri - "Sun" - was an NPC, although as a beautiful female mechanical engineer, she didn't resemble me much) but a few bits of Lojban stuck, notably "mabla" (the all-purpose swearword) and "le do mamta cu gerku".

[sepiamind.livejournal.com]

geekdom is a wide, treacherous but fertile sea full of many kind of critters. geeks who are into lojban are a tiny microecoystem; the vast majority of geek elites in all their bizarre plumage are unaffected.