"angell.jared@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <angell.jared@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Oct 10, 4:13 pm, Bob LeChevalier <loj...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> "angell.ja...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <angell.ja...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >Btw, I have noticed that to my Hebriac-anglo ears Lojban sounds
>> >similiar to Chinese...is there are reason for that?
>>
>> Probably because our word formation rules put a heavy weight on the
>> Chinese cognates. This led to a lot of sibilants in syllable onset,
>> and the letter "n" in non-final syllable ending. The final syllable
>> of a word ends in a vowel except in names.
>>
>> >I still wonder at this point, even after picking Lojban, if maybe
>> >there are things from Ido that could be incor****ated into
>> >Lojban...probably too late though.
>>
>> I'm not sure that I've ever heard of any feature of Ido that would be
>> appropriate for Lojban. In any event, language inventor JCB was quite
>> aware of the international language community when he started the
>> language, and apparently chose explicitly to go a different direction.
>>
>> >And Lojban seems to be the best
>> >all around language in existence from my perspective and from what I
>> >know.
>>
>> I can only agree %^)
>
>Do you and her converse in Lojban at home?
At times, but not very often. We used to do so a lot more, but got
out of the habit while raising our kids, who were native Russian
speakers learning English, and who had little interest in Lojban.
(Indeed, our primary use of Lojban in conversation since 1992 has been
to discuss parental matters in front of the kids so that they don't
know what we are saying)
>If so has that positively affected your relation****p?
Well, we're almost done with the 20th year of marriage, but haven't
ever had a fight. But I am not sure that is due to Lojban.
>I believe that our culture is absolutely
>mired in the belief that men and women are inherently far more
>different than they actually are,
My wife and I are quite different, but complementary. Most of our
differences do indeed correspond to the typical societal assumptions
about men and women, in spite of the fact that she has been the
breadwinner, and me the stay-at-home househusband, for most of those
20 years.
I am not sure that Lojban or any other language will have a lot of
effect on behavior independent of culture. There is as of yet no real
Lojbanic culture (there are a few cultural ideas specific to the
language community, but there is no coherence, and not necessarily a
result of the language as opposed to the sort of people that were
early users and my own approach to developing and spreading the
language).
lojbab
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