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#### Is there enough interest in a lojban Group?

Or am I the only one geeky enough around here to care?

Posted 12 months ago by Yarrow | Permalink

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- I've done a bit of research on lojban, and I find it pretty interesting. I'm a conlang fan, so I'd find a group about lojban intriguing, though I don't really have much lojban knowledge.
  Posted 12 months ago by Zules | Permalink
- What language is this??? Oh god, what's happening to my eyes???
  Posted 12 months ago by Papa Legba | Permalink
- The entire reference text is available online for free: Here
  I've been studying the root words using a piece of software called Anki, which is available kind of for everything.
  Posted 12 months ago by Yarrow | Permalink
- @Yarrow, how long have you been studying lojban? :)
  Posted 12 months ago by Zules | Permalink
- I just looked this up. I am really creeped out now.
  Posted 12 months ago by Papa Legba | Permalink
- @Zules Off and on for quite some time - I never have really had a use for it, so it never really sticks. Glitch and lojban seem like they'd be a good fit, though, so I was thinking about it here.
  @Coyote What's to be creeped out about?
  Posted 12 months ago by Yarrow | Permalink
- @Yarrow,
  Have you heard of toki pona? I think it also would be a good language for Glitchen :) Although it's kind of the opposite of lojban, lol!
  Posted 12 months ago by Zules | Permalink
- I've been following lojban/Loglan since the mid-1970's (yeah, that long ago, and yeah, I'm that old). I learned long lists of cmavo and gismu, but never got to the point where I could speak it. It has a very steep learning curve that makes it impractical for anything but a laboratory tool IMO. A Glitch subcommunity speaking Na'vi or Klingon would be interesting, though.
  @coyote You're worried about your eyes? Read the grammar and see what lojban does to your brain!
  Posted 12 months ago by Roscoe | Permalink
- @Roscoe, to the contrary, there are online communities of reasonably fluent speakers. And when I've had more facility with the root words, I've been able to communicate reasonably well - including being able to form questions about the grammar in grammatic lojban (It was kinda rad to be called 'le certbadass')
  @Zules, yes I seem to remember toki pona - it seemed like it had the same basis as Esperanto: great if we already share a language (or language roots)
  And yes: see what it does to your brain! That's part of the appeal. :)
  Posted 12 months ago by Yarrow | Permalink
- It just seems to me, upon my brief research into it, that's its super clinical and logical. Seems to take all the subtlety and romance out of language. Its definitely something I can see nerds and computer geeks getting into. For reference, I'm a conceptual artist who studies symbolism, myth and religion so I don't really jive with the logical. Not judging, just stating my opinion. To each there own.
  Posted 12 months ago by Papa Legba | Permalink
- And also, Thank you Internets for exposing me to really interesting new things (that aren't pornographic in nature).
  Posted 12 months ago by Papa Legba | Permalink
- There's enough fluency to it for another game I play to be translated into it for those that choose to play a character in that language.
  Posted 12 months ago by Little Miss Giggles | Permalink
- Interesting...you learn something new every day...being somewhat of a linguist, this intrigues me. Thanks for letting me know about it...might have to do some more studying on it.
  Posted 12 months ago by b3achy | Permalink
- @Giggles, are you talking about Cantr, or something else?
  @Coyote, for the record, while lojban is built on a logical structure, most of its semantics are built around metaphor, so there's that to hang onto. Almost everywhere that you could say something concrete, lojban allows you to be intentionally vague. The idea is that the unintentional vagueness and ambiguity that are endemic in natlangs is minimized.
  @b3achy, one feature of interest about lojban is that a lot of the grammar is taken from examinations of other languages, so it's a little bit of a linguistics survey in and of itself.
  Posted 12 months ago by Yarrow | Permalink
- Yep, that's what I'm talking about, Yarrow.
  Posted 12 months ago by Little Miss Giggles | Permalink
- Okay, it seems like there's a little bit of skeptical interest, but not enough to merit starting a group. Unless there's someone lurking who's not making their feelings know, I'll drop it.
  Posted 12 months ago by Yarrow | Permalink