From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Dec 23 04:25:37 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 23 Dec 2005 04:25:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Eplz2-0005WH-PX for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 04:25:16 -0800 Received: from mx3.mail.ru ([194.67.23.149]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Eplyz-0005W4-FM for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 04:25:16 -0800 Received: from [212.17.3.19] (port=32954 helo=yanis.vpn.plhs) by mx3.mail.ru with esmtp id 1Eplyx-000B0d-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:25:11 +0300 Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:25:08 +0600 From: Yanis Batura X-Mailer: The Bat! (v3.5.30) Professional X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <624135662.20051223182508@mail.ru> To: Theodore Reed Subject: [lojban] Re: Lojban Promotion In-Reply-To: <1135239800.22069.1.camel@localhost> References: <334875291.20051222083738@mail.ru> <200512212304.56420.phma@phma.hn.org> <55b258c20512212034j7542ec23h98fd2733d0f06f78@mail.gmail.com> <20051222045521.GB18265@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <1135239800.22069.1.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----------FDDCD2DDC741A" X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-archive-position: 10952 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: ybatura@mail.ru Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list ------------FDDCD2DDC741A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 22.12.2005, 14:23, Theodore Reed wrote: > But on a different direction, I'd have to strongly suggest *against* > writing an article about Dubya, simply based on the strength of the > desire to do so. I can only imagine how much NPoV issues such an entry > would have. Required in such article is only its existence. The article goi ko'a is so short that I can hardly imagine any NPoV issue that can be squeezed into ko'a of the following content: George W. Bush is the 43rd and current President of the United States. The "strong desire" to create this article is the desire of the following nu...kei : A guy scrolling through the English article is thinking: "What a controversial person this George W. Bush is! The number of edits of this article is so large that the officials have blocked it from editing! [Looking to the left column] Look, and Anglo Saxons have said something about him, too! And the Japs! And the Ruskies! And people with strange letters! And other people with other strange letters! And even Lo... Loj... Lojbans! Hey, what the heck are those Lojbans?" And if at least every 100th such reader asks this question, my goal will be achieved. Indeed, if the LLG had $100,000,000 to spread Lojban, this goal would have never existed. mi'e .ianis. ------------FDDCD2DDC741A Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

On 22.12.2005, 14:23, Theodore Reed wrote:

> But on a different direction, I'd have to strongly suggest *against*

> writing an article about Dubya, simply based on the strength of the

> desire to do so. I can only imagine how much NPoV issues such an entry

> would have.

Required in such article is only its existence. The article goi ko'a is so short that I can hardly imagine any NPoV issue that can be squeezed into ko'a of the following content:

George W. Bush is the 43rd and current President of the United States.

The "strong desire" to create this article is the desire of the following nu...kei :

A guy scrolling through the English article is thinking:

"What a controversial person this George W. Bush is! The number of edits of this article is so large that the officials have blocked it from editing! [Looking to the left column] Look, and Anglo Saxons have said something about him, too! And the Japs! And the Ruskies! And people with strange letters! And other people with other strange letters! And even Lo... Loj... Lojbans! Hey, what the heck are those Lojbans?"

And if at least every 100th such reader asks this question, my goal will be achieved.

Indeed, if the LLG had $100,000,000 to spread Lojban, this goal would have never existed.

mi'e .ianis.

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