From LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU Thu Dec 21 06:23:19 1995
Reply-To: Ivan A Derzhanski <IAD@BGEARN.BITNET>
Date: Thu Dec 21 06:23:19 1995
Sender: Lojban list <LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET>
From: Ivan A Derzhanski <IAD@BGEARN.BITNET>
Subject:      {gliban} vs {inglic}
To: John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>
In-Reply-To:  Message of Thu, 21 Dec 1995 10:52:31 GMT from 
              <dwiggins@BFSEC.BT.CO.UK>
Status: OR
Message-ID: <gufCZZH4AlO.A.a8F.yu0kLB@chain.digitalkingdom.org>

On Thu, 21 Dec 1995 10:52:31 GMT Don Wiggins said:
>Sometimes it seems that English usage dominates lojban.
>(.eicai) We must strive to prevent this.  [...]
>
>The use of "gliban." for English is the one area were lojban usage dominates.

Ah, but the very existence of the gismu {glico} (without which the cmene
{gliban} wouldn't exist either) certainly has to do with the dominant-ish
status that English has (along with the rest of the source languages and
some others).  So Lojban dominates indirectly, in a manner of speaking.

--Ivan