From rmcivor@macsrule.com Wed Dec 04 18:03:01 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 04 Dec 2002 18:03:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-server4.tampabay.rr.com ([65.32.1.43]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18JlLt-0007KD-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 18:02:57 -0800 Received: from macsrule.com (85.78.33.65.cfl.rr.com [65.33.78.85]) by smtp-server4.tampabay.rr.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gB522r1c020486 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 21:02:56 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 21:03:07 -0500 Subject: [lojban] Re: Why we should cancel the vote or all vote NO (was RE: Official Statement- LLG Board approves new baseline policy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v548) From: Robert McIvor To: lojban-list@lojban.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis In-Reply-To: Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.548) X-archive-position: 3037 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rmcivor@macsrule.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Mardi, déce 3, 2002, at 08:30 US/Eastern, And Rosta wrote: > I have long suspected that JCB was so pissed off at you not just for > splitting the language but for doing it with such poor taste and poor > discernment (from his perspective, at least). I do think that the > average person who knows neither language would, if faced with a > page of Loglan and a page of Lojban, find the Loglan somewhat pleasing > and the Lojban somewhat monstrous. Certainly my aesthetic judgements > are thus. So your crime was not only apostasy but also perversion. > Indeed this is a common reason for newbies to choose Loglan.