On Mon, Apr 23= , 2012 at 12:38 AM, banseljaj <ali.sajid.imami@gmail.com> 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?

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

Thanks again.
Also, Thank you for Lojban.

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

banseljaj wrote:
> This is a question to all oldhands, seni= or lojbanists.
> I am interested in knowing about the date Lojban was= forked off loglan.
The process started in Mar 1987, after JCB would not = sell me materials
for a Loglan class, since I wouldn't sign agreements conceding his
inte= llectual property claims. We started making new gismu starting in Jun, and had a set of gismu by the end of the year. But the language=
was still called Loglan and then Loglan-88, and we still thought if it
= as a negotiating tactic. Nora 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
t= he 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). It was during 1988 that we started using t= he
name "Lojban - A Realization of Lojban", and we pretty much realized=
that we were going to have the finish the language (i.e come up with a=
formal grammar). That took most of the year, and the JCB started
= threatening legal action in Feb 1989, which pretty much ensured that the fork was going to remain.
The early copies of Ju'i Lobypli (under d= ifferent names for the first
couple of issues), are somewhere on the Lojban website, and provide more dates and details.
lojbab
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