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On 8/24/2014 11:52 AM, Gleki Arxokuna wrote:
>     I'm sure there are.  But I never see them; only hear about them.
>
>     For example, one would think that with all these fluent people,
>     someone would have produced a in-Lojban blog and gotten a link to it
>     on the home page.  Matt and a couple of others had blogs a couple
>     years ago that were so-linked, but IIRC they were about Lojban
>     rather than in the language.
>
>     If IRC Lojban is so good, as some have said, someone could be
>     selecting a "best of IRC" and making it easy to find.
>
> I'm tagging sentences in tatoeba.org <http://tatoeba.org> to improve the
> quality of this database.

I'm interested in stuff that I can find on www.lojban.org, preferably 
on, or linked to, on the home page.  That is where the world sees what 
Lojban is.

>It has > 10 000 sentences in Lojban. Many of
> them are taken from IRC.
>
> Otherwise, it's hard to read the logs in search of good sentences.
> What is good and what is not?

If you can't tell, how would you expect the average Joe 
not-yet-a-Lojbanist to do so?


> If moving all discussions to Lojban fail then you can ban us and
> continue the old policy of non-proliferation of Lojban zo'oru'e.

That isn't "policy".  It is de facto reality.

> mi tugni i e'u co'u pilno lo glibau gi'e co'a pilno lo jbobau po'o
> i ku'ido pu cusku losedu'u do na kakne i ku'i ma'a ka'e troci vau pei

na go'i - at least, if I want to actually read and respond to all the 
messages in this thread.

>         If a person can speak fluent Lojban why disallow him/her from
>         BPFK and LLG?
>
>     Who is disallowing anyone?
>
> Sorry, I think I need to read those bylaws more carefully. Could you
> remind in two-three sentences of the procedure and requirements of
> applying new members? Is it too hard?

People seem to be figuring it out %^)

> I agree. One of the recent theses on Lojban and FrameNet showed that
> Lojban is a powerful tool for machine translation (at least potentially).
>
> However, where are those other applications of Lojban shown by LLG?
> I can't see any activities at all, neither in learning Lojban, nor
> in psychology, philosophy, logic, mathematics ...

A lot of discussions on lojban list have tended to break down into 
questions of philosophy or logic rather than language usage.

lojbab

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