tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jul 09 21:05:42 1994
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Re: lenu mi siskytadni cu mulno/ rIn jIQulmeH Qu'.
- From: [email protected] (Nick NICHOLAS)
- Subject: Re: lenu mi siskytadni cu mulno/ rIn jIQulmeH Qu'.
- Date: Sun, 10 Jul 1994 23:02:26 +1000 (EST)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Heidi Wessman" at Jul 8, 94 01:22:33 pm
Hu'tegh! nuq ja' Heidi Wessman jay'?
=On Fri, 8 Jul 1994, jatlhpu' Nick NICHOLAS:
=> Lojbanists and Klingonists, I am happy to announce that my Master's thesis,
=> _Problems in the Application of Rhetorical Structure Theory to Text
=> Generation_, has finally been completed.
=> Translations in Lojban and Klingon follow.
=> [Lojban]
=> {tlhIngan}
=Congratulations! However, I will admit I could only understand the
=English and the Klingon versions. But I'm impressed. Could you tell be
=more about Lojban?
Ah, yes! ;)
How to describe it? Well, in Trekkie terms, Lojban is a Vulcan's dream. It's
a language based on formal logic, and as far as linguistic features are
concerned, it's got the kitchen sink. It's not necessarily difficult to
learn (at least, the *basics* aren't), but it can get rather pedantic, by
natural language standards. For example, you can't say "I caused the disaster";
you have to say "my action caused the fact that the disaster happened"; not
"the TV said", but "the television network was the medium for someone to say
that".
Lojban is very instructive about language in a way quite different to Klingon.
To subscribe to their mailing list ([email protected]), I think
you send "subscribe your_name lojban" to listserv at the same address. The
FTP site for Lojban (chock-a-block with goodies) is at ra.cs.yale.edu; they
also have a WWW site in Finland that's doing good business.
Nick.