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Matt Arnold wrote:

> I don't know what the future holds for widespread adoption of Lojban. 
> Neither do I know if it will yeild measurable scientific insights. I 
> enjoy speaking a language that has so much functional elegance. In the 
> real world, we have to be compatible with everybody else even if the 
> existing monopoly is something defective. For me I like to imagine 
> what native Lojban speakers would be like in a world where 
> longstanding traditions are discarded for that which has the most 
> intrinsic merit. I go into more detail on my page about why I am 
> learning Lojban:
> http://www.nemorathwald.com/Why_Learning_Lojban.htm
> -epkat


Thanks, I enjoyed that site, even though my Lojban is now too rusty to 
understand a lot of it!

robin.tr