From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Mon Jan 02 13:00:33 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Mon, 02 Jan 2006 13:00:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1EtWn9-0006Uf-KJ for llg-board@lojban.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2006 13:00:31 -0800 Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 13:00:31 -0800 To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Re: Two organizations Message-ID: <20060102210031.GJ4087@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-board@lojban.org References: <43AB97DF.8030703@lojban.org> <20051226195753.GB5289@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20060102042644.GJ4087@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20060102173819.GL29659@miranda.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 From: Robin Lee Powell Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 56 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-board@lojban.org X-list: llg-board On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 03:53:21PM -0500, Matt Arnold wrote: > By the way, a google search for "up to the elephant's belly" > returned no matches. What does it mean? I believe he was referring to http://www.wordfocus.com/word-act-blindmen.html > > > We can better spend our time on things that the LLG itself > > > will do. After all, we're the LLG board, and we're beholden to > > > its members. Not the future-members of another organization, > > > even if they are a superset of our own members. > > > > Yes, I agree. > > There is a good reason that I have been discussing Arnt's proposal > with the LLG before going straight to the beginners-list and > lojban-list. This organization, if it is to bear any resemblance > to the International Esperanto Association, would take over > authorities and responsibilities previously assigned to the LLG, > such as publishing books, organizing Logfest, and the > www.lojban.org wiki. Jay noticed this immediately, and I noticed > it too. Arnt, the link to the International Esperanto Association > came from you. Is that what you intended? Again: not publishing books, and only *parts* of the lojban.org site, but I generally agree. > May I be frank? So long as we keep the language definition and > development firmly within the control of the LLG through BPFK, > maybe we need to give up one or two of those other functions to a > larger, more representative -- and more active -- democratic body. Fully agreed. [snip many other things I agree with] -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/