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

[alienghic.livejournal.com]

Wow... I had no idea you where that robin. I'd managed to work my way through some of Nick Nicholas' version of the lojban lessons. But learning a langugae by yourself can only go so far.

Then I had the idea of modifying festival and perhaps sphix to support lojban. That would allow me at least to practice with my computer. Not that I've made much progress on this plan, but I'm hoping that I'll eventually get to it.

[solri.livejournal.com]

Yes, none other than he! There's another (more active) Robin on the Lojban list, so I generally sign my posts there as robin.tr

If you do anything with speech synthesis, be sure to let the Lojban community know. Should be easier then natural languages because there's no phonetic ambiguity in Lojban if people pronounce it reasonably correctly, and in the case of errors, the regular morphology would give the software a better chance of guessing what was intended.