From LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Sat Mar 6 22:45:24 2010 Reply-To: Goran Topic Sender: Lojban list Date: Wed Dec 20 21:07:49 1995 From: Goran Topic Subject: Re: la lojban zasni X-To: Lojban Listserv To: John Cowan Status: OR X-From-Space-Date: Wed Dec 20 21:07:49 1995 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU Message-ID: > >> My amended recommendations for managing change after the baseline: > >> > >> 1. Add a formal version number to the name of lojban > >> or > >> > >> "lojban 1.0 or lojban 1996" > > Agree that the confusion with computer languages is a problem. But, have > you ever read any science fiction by Phillip Jose Farmer? He used the name > Loglan 3 in one of his stories. There is also Babel-17 by Samuel Delaney. > You and other lojbanistani would enjoy that one, if you haven't read it > already. It is about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and the very bad effects > of a constructed language on thinking, which are resolved when the new > release, Babel-18, comes out! Well written, too, for sci-fi. .i li paze na sinxa ledu'u le bangu xokaure'u se galfi ni'i lenu loi remna na djuno ra ca lenu selcmegau .i pe'i la babel. pazel. cunso selcmegau (17 is not the release number because the people couldn't know that when they named it. I think it was named arbitrarily.) co'o mi'e. goran. -- GAT/CS/O d?@ H s:-@ !g p1(2)@ !au(0?) a- w+(+++) (!)v-@(+) C++(++++) UU/H(+) P++>++++ L(>+) !3 E>++ N+ K(+) W--(---) M-- !V(--) -po+ Y(+) t+@(+++) !5 !j R+@ G-@(J++) tv+(++) b++@ D++ B? e+* u@ h!$ f?(+) r-- !n(+@) y+. GeekCode v2.1, modifications left to reader to puzzle out