From ragnarok@pobox.com Sat May 31 11:13:30 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 31 May 2003 11:13:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.intrex.net ([209.42.192.250]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19MAr6-0006js-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 31 May 2003 11:13:24 -0700 Received: from craig [209.42.200.60] by smtp.intrex.net (SMTPD32-7.13) id A0A527730028; Sat, 31 May 2003 14:12:53 -0400 From: "Craig" To: Subject: [lojban] Re: ISO 639-2 request Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 14:12:50 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20030531182023.GA64562@allusion.net> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-Declude-Sender: ragnarok@pobox.com [209.42.200.60] X-archive-position: 5537 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: ragnarok@pobox.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list >> >> > > >perhaps 300 who have some level of interest in the language. >> >> > > >Lojban has >> >> > > >> >> > > Huh. The last statistics I heard were way higher than that. >> >> > > What's the subscriptions on the mailing lists up to? >> >> > >> >> > Better safe than sorry. >> >> >> >> Then why not be safe about the fluency estimates also? >> >> >> >> My count on fluency is a nice big 0. >> > >> >Mine too. >> >> You didn't find Nick to be fluent when he was at LogFest? >> >> My count on fluency is 2. Nick, and Goran Topic (by Nick's report). I >> suspect that Jorge would qualify as well. >If you're going by that Nick-and-Goran conversation from 1995, I >don't think that was anywhere *close* to fluency. I have yet to see a tape or transcript of that, despite repeated promises from Nick. >Either way, though, 30 is just plain bogus. However, I'd think 30 >is probably a pretty accurate count of the numer of people who are >interested in the language (for a definition of "interest" that >doesn't include people who've just heard of the language and lurk >on the mailing list). You don't think the number of badyxu'e purchases shows it's at least over thirty?