From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Feb 23 13:34:22 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:34:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1D4498-000370-7P for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:34:14 -0800 Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:34:14 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: blast from the past Message-ID: <20050223213414.GR29535@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20050221164116.50682.qmail@web81305.mail.yahoo.com> <1109145928.8091.5.camel@localhost> <537d06d0050223001579349f71@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <537d06d0050223001579349f71@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 9522 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 09:15:45AM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:05:28 -0800, Theodore Reed > wrote: > > I hit google. I found both Lojban and Loglan. I initially > > dismissed Lojban because it appeared to be a half-assed fork > > from people who decided that they didn't like the way Loglan was > > being run > > That's the impression I also got the first time I came across a > mention of those languages :) I, on the other hand: - did a web search for "logical language" (this is around 1997 or so?) - found both almost immediately - asked Altivista what the difference was - discovered that Loglan was under copyright - laughed my ass off, and have ignored Loglan ever since -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/