From xod@thestonecutters.net Fri Jul 23 12:13:02 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:13:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thestonecutters.net ([63.251.19.112] helo=chert.thestonecutters.net) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.32) id 1Bo5TR-0003tg-LT for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:12:53 -0700 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (p78-77.acedsl.com [66.114.78.77]) by chert.thestonecutters.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F92D148002 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 14:52:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <41016330.3070607@thestonecutters.net> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:12:48 -0400 From: xod User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (Windows/20040707) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Projects References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed X-archive-position: 8305 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: xod@thestonecutters.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list reverendzow wrote: >What's a BPFK? I think such a change -could- happen, but to do so, >the following would have to occur: Someone creates a new Lojban >vocabulary that has major improvements over the current one (although >this is not necessarily possible), then the existing (and relatively >small as I understand it) Lojban community would need to be convinced >that this new vocabulary was worth the work in switching. $0.02 > > I'm imagining a goulash containing Esperantoid vocabulary (targetting your preferred language group) and Lojbanic grammar. Do you expect this would gain more traction than Esperanto, or would that level of success satisfy you? -- Vincent Cannistraro, a former CIA counterterrorism czar under Reagan and G.H.W. Bush, says the Iraq war "accelerated terrorism" by "metastasizing" Al Qaeda.