From matt.mattarn@gmail.com Tue Aug 08 16:52:08 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-members); Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:52:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.190]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GAbMi-0005Jn-TI for llg-members@lojban.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:52:06 -0700 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id a27so379307nfc for ; Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:52:01 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=naPqf9YPgjFoLXAxyBJVLpIsMsiiGoyzIm5uB8t4fpLDnankD/wlg7dsRFXG8AvGtMwwA10mcRZR72wO0c4m6d8sGHtXGUqr/lIoDANyP87qWXAT/IbQ/OHb5QdhfrVTsO3dQRs/6K7STCT3+PiqoFtLz+HUyEPeaSUhhTgFzkw= Received: by 10.82.102.5 with SMTP id z5mr26541bub; Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:52:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.159.4 with HTTP; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 16:52:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 19:52:00 -0400 From: "Matt Arnold" To: llg-members@lojban.org Subject: [llg-members] Re: LLG 2006 Annual Meeting Thread In-Reply-To: <20060808233918.GF28190@chain.digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060707224943.GB18983@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20060807041126.GE28190@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <44D6D0E3.30801@lojban.org> <44D77A08.9080800@kli.org> <44D78A18.4070802@kli.org> <20060808233918.GF28190@chain.digitalkingdom.org> X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) X-archive-position: 260 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: matt.mattarn@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-members@lojban.org X-list: llg-members On 8/8/06, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 02:44:40PM -0400, Mark E. Shoulson wrote: > > And the impression it leaves in people's minds that this language "beat" > > that one... it's not helpful to the community (the Lojban community, > > the Klingon community, or the conlang community as a whole). > > I think as long as every is clearly having fun and not taking > themselves too seriously, it doesn't matter. Also, I believe that > with a little practice a good Lojbanist could get used to not > worrying how good their sentence was. > > In other words, I'm not with you on this; I think it makes great > show and we need the publicity. > > -Robin Agreed. The "competition" is between apples and oranges anyway. We could have a Lojbanist make a diagram and have a Klingon cut it in half with a batleth or something. I should pre-script the whole thing and end it in a draw. -epkat