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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 21:12:19 -0500
From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>
Subject: Re: lojbo sonci gunta
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At 05:01 AM 2/19/99 -0300, =?us-ascii?Q?Jorge_J._Llamb=EDas?= wrote:
>From: "=?us-ascii?Q?Jorge_J._Llamb=EDas?=" <jorge@intermedia.com.ar>
>
>>>By another account:
>>>"...ni'o la prometibab.
>>>    cu lebna lo lojbo fagri
>>>    gi'e dunda ri loi remna..."
>>
>>Hey, I'm having a hard enough time merely living up to "Lojban Central"
>zo'o
>
>I'm afraid you're too late to object. The poem with the Lojbanic creation
>myth, from where those verses are taken, is already required study in all
>schools of Lojbanistan, and they say that even the rebels from the Lojbandia
>Mountains are familiar with it.

I knew that we diggers in the sandpits were building quite a pile of sand,
but I never realized that we had built mountains already.

Question - are the cliffs that the Esperantists are trying to climb also
part of the Lojbandia mountains?

(For non-oldtimers, this is a reference to older metaphorical story about
Lojban and other artificial languages, with each group of language
supporters trying to scale their own cliffs.  Esperantists were scaling one
cliff.  Lojbanists were, if I recall, scaling our cliff by building a pile
of sand which of course had all the stability of a big poile of sand (this
was pre baseline).  We were working in our own sandpit because JCB (The
'First Digger') wouldn't let us play in his sandbox, etc. etc.  We need to
dig this out again - a new generation of Lojbanists are clearly ready to
join the diggers!)

lojbab