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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 15:27:22 GMT+0
From: And Rosta <a.rosta@uclan.ac.uk>
Subject: sandpit (was: Re: lojbo sonci gunta)
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Lojbab:
> 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!)

The relevant email correspondence was published in Ju`i Lobypli, 
issue 16 or 17 or thereabouts. Are old issues available over the net?

co`o mi`e .and