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On 9/14/2014 3:25 PM, Dustin Lacewell wrote:
> I mean, fine, if this is the sediment that is left after this entire
> thread as been boiled away great. You get what you wish for because no
> matter how many times you groan and say 'but but but there's these
> existing things that... well .. someone has to do first!' those words
> are not a magical spell that mystically summon some creature willing to
> bide your will for you.

While you are spewing, others, including selpa'i are working.

> It doesn't change that the process for your language is broken, reader.

Human language doesn't generally have a process, which is why it is 
broken. (Computer languages are unlike human languages in that respect).

> Your language will die because it stands on a cult of personality.

I rather hope not.  As the supposed object of this cult of personality, 
I've seen relatively little cultish behavior, and I do my damnedest to 
make sure it doesn't emerge.  Zamenhof set the model for this in dealing 
with proponents of change to Esperanto.  Would that I could do so well.

lojbab

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