From sbelknap@uic.edu Wed Dec 04 18:06:05 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 04 Dec 2002 18:06:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from larch.cc.uic.edu ([128.248.155.164]) by digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.05) id 18JlOr-0007Lg-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 18:06:01 -0800 Received: (qmail 27704 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2002 02:05:59 -0000 Received: from webmail.cc.uic.edu (HELO webmail.uic.edu) (128.248.121.50) by larch.cc.uic.edu with SMTP; 5 Dec 2002 02:05:59 -0000 X-WebMail-UserID: sbelknap@uic.edu Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 20:05:54 -0600 From: sbelknap To: , , a.rosta@lycos.co.uk X-EXP32-SerialNo: 50000146 Subject: [lojban] Re: Loglan Message-ID: <3DF44592@webmail.uic.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: InterChange (Hydra) SMTP v3.62 X-archive-position: 3038 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: sbelknap@uic.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list >===== Original Message From a.rosta@lycos.co.uk ===== >Bob McIvor: >> Most newcomers to TLI have looked at both languages before deciding >> to go with TLI > >I'm curious as to what their reasons were. Do you know? > >(I found Loglan (word lists) shortly before Lojban. I never really made >a conscious choice between them, but Lojban had a lively net community >and Loglan didn't, so I gradually became part of Lojban. I still think >that that's the main substantive criterion for choosing between the >two.) I was also influenced by the relatively greater vitality of the lojban listserv. If there had been approximately equal activity on the Loglan and lojban listservs, I probably would have stuck with Loglan, simply to avoid memorizing a whole new vocabulary. But weeks and months went by on the Loglan list with no activity. There wasn't really any sense of an active community. So I gravitated towards lojban. -Steven