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Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 11:17:16 -0500
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An auxlang will succeed when Bulletball is an Olympic sport.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOOw2yWMSfk

The Senior Olympics don't count.

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:20 AM, And Rosta <and.rosta@gmail.com> wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell, On 18/11/2012 00:47:
>
>> Thanks for the explanation.  Your repsonse implies that there's an
>> actual contender out there; is that true?  It's news to me if so.
>
>
> Xorban would count as an actual contender, since it's now out there in the
> public world, albeit in inchoate form, having been born accidentally in
> August 2012.
>
>
>> Is there another loglang with, say, 20 active community members?  If
>> not, I find all your points fairly irrelevant, but I can understand
>> why you wouldn't.
>
>
> Xorban doesn't have 20 active community members but has the most active
> community focused on loglang development (compared to Lojban, Ceqli, Guaspi;
> I don't monitor what's going on with Loglan), tho it's early days. I've
> always thought the size and vitality of the Lojban community was important,
> in that it seemed likely that because loglangers gravitate thither, it would
> be from within that community that a collaborative project to develop an
> adequate auxloglang might emerge.
>
> I'm not sure why you'd ask about number of active community members yet find
> my points irrelevant. I said "The reason for anyone joining the Lojban
> community now would be a liking for the language and/or the community"; I
> agree that the size of the active Lojbanist community is a potential
> attraction for many (of the few interested in invented languages in the
> first place). Maybe you're thinking that you do want there to be an
> auxloglang, but a relatively poorly designed one with an active user base
> has a better chance of success than a relatively well designed one without
> an active user base? If so, I guess you'd have to make your own judgement
> about the how big the difference in design quality is, how significant the
> difference in community size is, and the relative importance of those two in
> furthering the auxloglang goal. I have my own views on that, but I won't
> blurt them into the middle of the LLG Annual Meeting.
>
> --And.
>
>
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