From cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!LOJBAN Wed Jan 1 03:58:40 1992 Return-Path: Date: Wed Jan 1 03:58:40 1992 Message-Id: <9201010746.AA14602@relay1.UU.NET> Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: thanx for a great year X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann Status: RO I want to close the year thanking everyone on the list who participated, and expressing appreciation for all of your support. We made a lot of progress, and firmly established our presence on the net, and made ourselves known (zabna, not mabla) to the linguistics community. While no books were published, some outstanding work by John Cowan has moved us far closer to getting books out, and the books will be a couple of orders of magnitude more useful when they do appear. I also want to express particular appreciation to Nick Nicholas for a whole bunch of Lojban translations and expressions, inspiring me and many others into believing the language is for real, also to Ivan and Mark S. for their writings and commentaries on others, to And Rosta for some pleasing and challenging intellectual discussion (not to denigrate a bunch of the rest of you who also strained my brain at times), to Rory Hinnen, Jim Carter and Russell Whitaker for collectively getting the LA Group going, and to Nora, Sylvia Rutiser, and Athelstan here in DC for making it a full year of weekly Lojban conversations. Finally I want to thank Eric Raymond for snark, and Jerry Altzman for the new incarnation of Lojban List on cuvmb, Mark S. and J Jerry A. for the Planned Languages Server, and Dave Cortesi and Bob Chassell for support on product development and distribution on the Mac, and via electronic distribution respectively. Oh, and financial. We squeaked through. The December fund raiser has generated about 30 responses so far and some $1200, enough to keep our losses for the year under $1000. If the rest of you send in your JL request forms, and hopefully some money, we'll start 1992 off right. Expect an early JL16, and 1 or 2 books within a few months. No dates set, and I won;t set them till I'm ready to go to the printer with the first one. Keep it up, learn Lojban, and help spread the word. May 1992 be better than 1991. ki'eco'omi'e lojbab.