From a.rosta@pmail.net Fri Feb 18 06:29:45 2000 X-Digest-Num: 368 Message-ID: <44114.368.2001.959273826@eGroups.com> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:29:45 -0000 From: "And Rosta" Subject: rapprochement > >From: Alex Leith > > > >I've been pondering a rapprochement between Loglan and Lojban, and Bob > >McIvor is thinking that way too. I do hope that Lojbanistan takes a proactive stance on this, more than just wishing Loglan good luck. As far as I am aware, there have been many IAL schisms, but never a reunification, so that would be a shining first. And the longer it is delayed, the more people will have a vested interest in there not being a reunification (because they won't want to do any extra learning). Without reunification, even with goodwill the two lgs would be rivals, and though Lojban is altogether the more vigorous, it will always be Pepsi to Loglan's Coke. I suggested in a message to the Loglanists list that we could start by having a new language with two alternate lexicogrammars, i.e. Lojban and classical Loglan. A shared cmavo could indicate which was being used. A next stage would be to define lexical equivalences for the cmavo, and possibly for the gismu. After that, it could be left to usage of the combined speech communities to determine what the eventual product would look like. I suppose the reason why I think all this would be such a good idea is that reunification would be a major achievement, and one in the Lojban (and possibly Loglan) spirit, given that Lojban is a rare example of something that was successfully created through cooperative and collective endeavour. --And.