Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 03:15:28 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199708130815.DAA26193@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: HACKER G N Sender: Lojban list From: HACKER G N Subject: First successful language development by a committee X-To: Lojban List To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 540 X-From-Space-Date: Wed Aug 13 03:15:30 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU coi rodo I notice that on the Lojban 10th anniversary announcement on the Lojban WWW Archive, Lojbab says that Lojban has been described as the first ever successful language development by a committee. I have to say, this description is false. Interlingua was also developed successfully by a committee, and it was completed four years before the Loglan project was even announced! Interlingua was baselined in 1951 by the International Auxiliary Language Association of New York, under the direction of Dr Alexander Gode. co'omi'e djef