From LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Sat Mar 6 22:54:10 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI Received: (qmail 17248 invoked from network); 16 Sep 1997 16:25:18 -0000 Received: from segate.sunet.se (192.36.125.6) by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with SMTP; 16 Sep 1997 16:25:18 -0000 Received: from segate.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <8.52F53E9A@SEGATE.SUNET.SE>; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 18:25:07 +0100 Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 17:22:26 GMT+0 Reply-To: And Rosta Sender: Lojban list From: And Rosta Organization: University of Central Lancashire Subject: Re: "lojbab" X-To: LOJBAN@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 601 Lines: 11 Message-ID: > The real explanation is that when I called and left messages for Athelstan, > fellow Lojban worker, his roommates recorded the messages as from > "Lojban Bob" to tell them apart from the other "Bobs" that left messages. > This was shortened quickly to "Lojbob" and of course Lojbanized to "lojbab". > So many people called me by that name since Athelstan was the primary recruiter > of new people in those days, that the nickname stuck. To non-North Americans, of course, your name rhymes with "cab" rather than with "cob", and had it been us who had nicknamed you you would have become "Lojbob".