From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Oct 29 13:58:13 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:08:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Imbga-0007T1-60 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:58:13 -0700 Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.134.187]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1ImbgV-0007SY-4j for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:58:11 -0700 Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id i10so2944850mue for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:58:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=88LZlB265Gr35tq1Fjn+M8XzJUWlP9SpK8OpNWmsp3g=; b=T2jGxLr5+yutZGDV4r1c8wbO4/5jQr9G5j23ttcHoiWdnxXEebJkw1oBV83m1hhidGVQ+XBpVujuasFT/nx4h0+22j+uuc+eHvCaELnCA8KZg/H1BY5tguGdgGNooGUoy64UzmwBy3V98G+usFBVN8QyNOmX19FenVEDzCAJxfU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=GxBC2z0Ko97u6gZFaRSMm/5lOM6MNUU7EsRHWqv5jqouwZdPRuF2bSEHXab88Vc5/Gn4pUMzGyPYHcBgN+OLB/rzYA+r+oq7RsfOS8xf0W6hAi1IXdvPGE8a3MCSpAAF4SOGVQkVOF5b1smqiHLJUfCJonR5SVSyK8cgCzfyipM= Received: by 10.82.183.19 with SMTP id g19mr12049272buf.1193691481291; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:58:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.112.20 with HTTP; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:58:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2204fa080710291358g2ddcdfd9tb992d733c75a5b9e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:58:01 -0500 From: "Jared Angell" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Boise locals In-Reply-To: <47262FE3.4000400@lojban.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_42_15708895.1193691481267" References: <472A40AB@webmail.bcpl.net> <47262235.9030502@lojban.org> <2204fa080710291147s7855859ene7fb20e19e4bc542@mail.gmail.com> <47262FE3.4000400@lojban.org> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5757 X-Approved-By: jkominek@miranda.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: angell.jared@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners ------=_Part_42_15708895.1193691481267 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 10/29/07, Robert LeChevalier wrote: > > Jared Angell wrote: > > My old records similarly show two people on our mailing list in > Boise, > > and one in Pocatello, but I haven't heard from any of them in over > 10 > > years. Hmm, one had an unusual name, and I see that he is probably > now > > a professor at a university in Pittsburgh. Have to look him up next > > time I go up there. Another of them I know was only interested in > > Lojban as one of several conlangs, and he probably never learned the > > language (and may no longer be in Idaho) > > > > Back when LLG did paper mailings multiple times a year it was a lot > > easier to find groups of Lojbanists. > > > > Does that not, indeed, indicate a regression in the # of Lojban > speakers? > > Not hardly, since each of the two Lojban mailing lists has around 4 > times as many people subscribed as were on the one list back then (and > back then, 1991-1992, I doubt if more than a couple dozen people could > write coherent non-trivial paragraphs of Lojban). > > lojbab > > > > > Oh, ok cool. -- Jared "There is no emotion, there is peace; there is no ignorance, there is knowledge; there is no passion, there is serenity; there is no death, there is the Universe" "Work smart when you can and hard if you must" "When a system is corrupt then it's time for a reformat" "Open Source: The light side of computing. It's never too late to join" ------=_Part_42_15708895.1193691481267 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline

On 10/29/07, Robert LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org> wrote:
Jared Angell wrote:
>     My old records similarly show two people on our mailing list in Boise,
>     and one in Pocatello, but I haven't heard from any of them in over 10
>     years.  Hmm, one had an unusual name, and I see that he is probably now
>     a professor at a university in Pittsburgh.  Have to look him up next
>     time I go up there.  Another of them I know was only interested in
>     Lojban as one of several conlangs, and he probably never learned the
>     language (and may no longer be in Idaho)
>
>     Back when LLG did paper mailings multiple times a year it was a lot
>     easier to find groups of Lojbanists.
>
> Does that not, indeed, indicate a regression in the # of Lojban speakers?

Not hardly, since each of the two Lojban mailing lists has around 4
times as many people subscribed as were on the one list back then (and
back then, 1991-1992, I doubt if more than a couple dozen people could
write coherent non-trivial paragraphs of Lojban).

lojbab





Oh, ok cool.


--
Jared

"There is no emotion, there is peace;  there is no ignorance, there is knowledge;  there is no passion, there is serenity;  there is no death, there is the Universe"

"Work smart when you can and hard if you must"

"When a system is corrupt then it's time for a reformat"

"Open Source: The light side of computing.  It's never too late to join" ------=_Part_42_15708895.1193691481267--