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Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 9:30

This is a thread all about Lojban.

• Discuss the syntax and semantics.
• Discuss software for/using Lojban (parsing Lojban, Prolog, etc.).

Seeing as pretty much 80% of Lojban enthusiasts are programmers, it is probably on topic here in /prog/

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 9:33

No, Christopher, I am pretty sure you are the only one speaking Lojban here.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 9:34

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 9:38

la .alis. klama la bob. mu'i la .alis. sijdu la bob.

Alice goes to Bob with the motivation of helping Bob.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 9:40

Whoops, mispost.

la .alis. klama la bob. mu'i lo nu la .alis. sijdu la bob.

Alice goes to bob with motivation the event that Alice helps Bob.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 9:40

How would I benefit from learning Lojban? Is it really worth the time needed to learn it?

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 9:41

>>6
Not really. I learn it for fun, not for any kind of benefit.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 9:42

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 9:43

>>8
Um?

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 9:43

>>6
You will join the private area of lojban ;), reserved for only 1500 users. Plus, it's fun learning a language that's based on logic.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 9:45

>>10
EXPERT TROLL

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 9:47

Also, what Lojban dictionary do you recommend?

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 9:47

>>11
I don't see your point.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 9:49

Does Lojban have a word for "good"? In English it has different meanings. There is the emotive form, which is basically approval. There is "that is good for you", the beneficial form. There is absolute, moral good, which is meaningless. There is "skilled", as in "to be good at". There are probably more...

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 9:54

>>12
There is:

http://jbotcan.org/gismulinked.html -- a cross-linked HTML page of all the root words.

There is a .txt file which you can grep: http://www.lojban.org/publications/wordlists/gismu.txt

There is Sutfak, which is a Perl/Tk program which queries words: http://prdownload.berlios.de/sutfak/sutfak-0.6.tar.gz

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 9:54

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 9:55

Well, there's one word for ``good'' as in ``apples are good for you'' and another (vrude) for saying ``be good and you'll go to heaven''. Am I right, Christopher?

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 9:57

I forgot the first word, if you're wondering.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 9:57

There's also jbofihe, which will probably be in your package manager, or, I dunno, on some Download.com web site, if you are a Windows user.

And a page I wrote that uses it: http://jbotcan.org/jbofihe/

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 9:59

>>17
Well, "apples are good" would be the beneficial meaining, and vrude is "morally good", yes.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 10:01

vrude

x1 is virtuous/saintly/[fine/moral/nice/holy/morally good] by standard x2

ko vrude

MAKE IT SO THAT YOU ARE MORALLY GOOD BY SOME STANDARD

Name: Patrick Stewart 2008-06-17 10:03

[b][u][i][o]MAKE IT SO[o][i][u][b]

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 10:04

>>17
xamgu

x1 (object/event) is good/beneficial/nice/[acceptable] for x2 by standard x3

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 10:05

>>22
mi fengu do

I AM ANGRY AT YOU FOR SOME ACTION/STATE/PROPERTY

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 10:06

Is learning Lojban more fun than learning Moonspeak?

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 10:09

>>25
I have been learning Japanese for some time, and I can assure that learning Lojban is way more fun. And easier.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 10:10

Is learning Lojban more fun than learning Haskell?

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 10:10

.ii ;_;

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 10:11

>>27
Funny you ask, because I am learning both right now
(This also didn't answer your question in the slightest bit.).

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 10:12

>>29
I lol'd

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 10:15

Is learning Lojban more fun than reading a Paul Graham essay?

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 10:15

IIRC all of Prolog can be expressed in Lojban (except cuts) so there are scripts to translate Lojban and send it to a Prolog compiler, or something.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 10:16

>>31
I laughed

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 10:16

Is learning Lojban more fun than learning CROMA?

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 10:19

Can you Lojban a fish?

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 10:19

Is learning Lojban easier than learning Esperanto?

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 10:27

>>30
I hate when people laugh at what I've posted and I can't see why.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 10:27

.ui mi tavla fo la .lojban.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 10:29

Is learning Lojban accepted as a kind of masturbation?

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-17 10:33

Can I MONETIZE my Lojban knowledge?

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