From cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!LOJBAN Mon Feb 3 13:38:38 1992 Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Mon, 3 Feb 92 13:38 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA11441; Mon, 3 Feb 92 13:12:26 EST Received: from cunixf.cc.columbia.edu by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA11887; Mon, 3 Feb 92 12:09:54 -0500 Received: from cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu by cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (5.59/FCB) id AA00222; Mon, 3 Feb 92 12:09:54 EST Message-Id: <9202031709.AA00222@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1) with BSMTP id 7365; Mon, 03 Feb 92 12:07:34 EST Received: by CUVMB (Mailer R2.07) id 7758; Mon, 03 Feb 92 11:54:56 EST Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1992 09:14:00 EST Reply-To: "61510::GILSON" Sender: Lojban list From: "61510::GILSON" Subject: 35 years? X-To: lojban To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann Status: RO Lojbab writes: >Really Bruce??? Lojban crystalized too soon? Loglan is some 35 years old. >How long is long enough? I would not date _Lojban_ from JCB's original work. Lojban is how old? whenever Bob decided that he could not work within JCB's framework and made the first change. The decision to use schwa and the zero-allophone buffer vowel is hardly a part of the Loglan that "is some 35 years old," because JCB, the inventor of that scheme, has never accepted it. Bruce