On Mon, Apr 2= 3, 2012 at 12:38 AM, banseljaj <ali.sajid.imami@gmail.com><= /span> wrote:

coi la lojbab

Thank you for replying = so quickly. I am indeed trying to plan out an anniversary.
First weekend= of January 1987 puts the 25th Anniversary at 2nd/3rd January 2013. Would t= hat be correct?

=A0
No. The 3rd was a Friday in '87, the weekend is Saturday an= d Sunday.

=A0

Thanks again.
Also, Thank you for Lojban.

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On Monday, April 23, 2012 2:17:17 AM UTC+5, lojbab wrote:

banseljaj wrote:
> This is a question to all o= ldhands, senior lojbanists.
> I am interested in knowing about the da= te Lojban was forked off loglan.
The process started in Mar 1987, after J= CB would not sell me materials
for a Loglan class, since I wouldn't sign agreements conceding his
= intellectual property claims. =A0We started making new gismu starting in Jun, and had a set of gismu by the end of the year. =A0But the language <= br> was still called Loglan and then Loglan-88, and we still thought if it
= as a negotiating tactic. =A0Nora and I got married using vows written in a =
hybrid wordlist, and spoke some quasi-Lojban on our honeymoon in
Williamsburg VA in October 1987. There was a formal "announcement"= ; of
the language at Evecon 1988, the first weekend in January (which I= think
is the logical time to plan a "25th anniversary celebration= ", if anyone
has such a thing in mind). =A0It was during 1988 that we started using the =
name "Lojban - A Realization of Lojban", and we pretty much r= ealized
that we were going to have the finish the language (i.e come up= with a
formal grammar). =A0That took most of the year, and the JCB started
thr= eatening legal action in Feb 1989, which pretty much ensured that the
f= ork was going to remain.
The early copies of Ju'i Lobypli (under = different names for the first
couple of issues), are somewhere on the Lojban website, and provide more dates and details.
lojbab
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Bob LeChevalier
President and Founder, The Logical Language Group, I= nc.

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