Name: Anonymous 2009-03-14 12:21
tl;dr
Hi there. I've been learning Lojban1 for about a year and I'm not too bad with it so far.
I am looking for people who have never heard of it, or never bothered learning it, but who wouldn't mind giving it a try in a novel way.
I am doing a little experiment. I am writing a Lojban tutorial purely with pictures. It is loosely based on the A Quick Tour of Lojban Grammar, With Diagrams section of The Complete Lojban Language2. The idea is:
* You shouldn't have to translate to your natural language, or any other language you speak.
* We shouldn't have to translate all the Lojban books to every language. It's just infeasible.
* You should be able to have an "intuitive", that is, kind of raw, (and here is where it is kind of experimental) unbaised interpretation of the graphics and the meaning of the words and grammar.
* Lojban being "culturally-neutral" (at some degree; we have a root word for "computer", so it applies to certain modern cultures) is great and all but all the Lojban learning materials are in English! So either we don't get potential Lojbanists, or non-native English speakers have to go through two layers of language!
I'm not really skilled at drawing but I think skilled enough to get the point across.
The irony is I am writing this post in English. How will I distribute the tutorial once it's finished? I'll leave that till later.
Why learn Lojban?
Just for fun and experimentation. Chatting with it is fun, learning it is, and teaching it is.
Get to the point
Please have a look at this (work-in-progress, so it will change frequently and get bigger) page and study the pictures, and tell me what you interpret these words to mean. If you have trouble, it's probably my fault and I'm not getting the pictures right, so don't worry.
http://jbotcan.org/xractu/xractu/xractu.html
If you like the small sample posted so far, I'll post updates in this thread, but I won't bump it unless someone shows interest.
Cheers!
1 Lojban is a constructed, logical language, based on Loglan from the 60s. {lojban} means "logic language".
2 http://jbotcan.org/cllc/
Hi there. I've been learning Lojban1 for about a year and I'm not too bad with it so far.
I am looking for people who have never heard of it, or never bothered learning it, but who wouldn't mind giving it a try in a novel way.
I am doing a little experiment. I am writing a Lojban tutorial purely with pictures. It is loosely based on the A Quick Tour of Lojban Grammar, With Diagrams section of The Complete Lojban Language2. The idea is:
* You shouldn't have to translate to your natural language, or any other language you speak.
* We shouldn't have to translate all the Lojban books to every language. It's just infeasible.
* You should be able to have an "intuitive", that is, kind of raw, (and here is where it is kind of experimental) unbaised interpretation of the graphics and the meaning of the words and grammar.
* Lojban being "culturally-neutral" (at some degree; we have a root word for "computer", so it applies to certain modern cultures) is great and all but all the Lojban learning materials are in English! So either we don't get potential Lojbanists, or non-native English speakers have to go through two layers of language!
I'm not really skilled at drawing but I think skilled enough to get the point across.
The irony is I am writing this post in English. How will I distribute the tutorial once it's finished? I'll leave that till later.
Why learn Lojban?
Just for fun and experimentation. Chatting with it is fun, learning it is, and teaching it is.
Get to the point
Please have a look at this (work-in-progress, so it will change frequently and get bigger) page and study the pictures, and tell me what you interpret these words to mean. If you have trouble, it's probably my fault and I'm not getting the pictures right, so don't worry.
http://jbotcan.org/xractu/xractu/xractu.html
If you like the small sample posted so far, I'll post updates in this thread, but I won't bump it unless someone shows interest.
Cheers!
1 Lojban is a constructed, logical language, based on Loglan from the 60s. {lojban} means "logic language".
2 http://jbotcan.org/cllc/