From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Apr 13 20:37:53 2011 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:37:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QADNR-0004ad-8m for llg-board@lojban.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:37:53 -0700 Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:37:53 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Re: [jandew@gmail.com: [lojban] Re: Lojban Class at Rice University] Message-ID: <20110414033753.GE21357@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-board@lojban.org References: <20110412041752.GN21357@digitalkingdom.org> <4DA61374.9070006@lojban.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DA61374.9070006@lojban.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-archive-position: 782 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 Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 05:19:48PM -0400, Bob LeChevalier, President and Founder - LLG wrote: > By my recollection, 16 is not an especially large class at a > college, and indeed is on the small side. I don't think I had > more than a couple classes that small, and they were all upper > division specialized classes that were elective. "Huge" to me > meant 200+ students. It's a tiny college class; it is a huge *Lojban* class. > I think we have had other college-level Lojban classes, some I > think to larger classes (I think there was a class of around 30 at > St Marys College in the SF Bay area in the early 90s - it covered > multiple artificial languages but Lojban got major billing), Well, I wasn't around for that, obviously. :) > and we haven't previously offered free books (Offering a > significant discount would have seemed more reasonable to me.) > Goodwill is valuable, but CLL sales are the bulk of our income for > several years. Luckily, our expenses have been minimal and.or > covered by Robin or others. Yes, I doubt very much we had near to 10k in the bank then. > And on the other hand, even at the greatly increased sales rate at > amazon recently (we've gone from a rate of something like 20 books > a year to somewhere between 50 and a 100 books a year, and > rising), we have a few years stock taking up space in my basement, > and a new edition in preparation that will make those copies at > least somewhat obsolete, hopefully long before we run out of > stock. So eventually our stock won't be worth much more than > remainder value. Also that, yes. -Robin -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/