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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:25:34 EDT
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Subject: Re: mutual project
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In a message dated 18-Apr-99 3:54:34 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
sbelknap@uic.edu writes:

> From: Steven Belknap <sbelknap@uic.edu>
>  
>  >Colin says "Part of the process of maintaining a conflict lies in
>  >justifying one's own side and blaming the other. The origins of the 
dispute
>  >are rarely relevant."
>  >Many of you on the list have perhaps come on since the dispute, and have
>  >only heard stories from one side or the other on how or why it came about.
>  >Let us not rehash the stories, but some discussion, particularly from
>  >recent arrivals, on what, if anything, might be done about it, to turn
>  >competition into cooperation, as suggested by Dr. Belknap.
>  >
>  >Jelhaisto,
>  >Hue Bab
>  >(rmcivor@macsrule.com)
>  
>  As a start, could those lojbanistanis interested in Loglan please subscribe
>  to the Loglan list and those Loglanders interested in lojban please
>  subscribe to the lojban list. Maybe someone could post to each list how to
>  subscribe to the other list, how to get paper copies of journals published,
>  how to get access to the web site, etc. Such posting should be with the
>  approval of the listmaster, of course, just as a matter of netiquette.
>  Also, it would be nice if those who post to the private Loglan list could
>  send a copy of your message to the public Loglan list where this seems
>  appropriate. The lack of access to the private lists results in the
>  impression that relatively little activity is occurring in Loglan
>  cyberspace, which is of course not accurate.
>  
>  One possible project would be developing and testing an automatic
>  translator lojban<->Loglan. My general impression is that the two languages
>  are very similar except for vocabulary. In order to begin, we would need a
>  clearer sense of what the differences are between the languages. Can anyone
>  help me understand how the languages differ?
>  
>  lojban:  co'o mi'e stivn
>  Loglan: Hue Stivn
>  Steven Belknap, M.D.
>  Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Medicine
>  U
I have been a member of both lists for about a year now. I am concentrating 
on learning Loglan (not very hard right know) because Lojban looks wierd to 
me with all of those apostraphes between vowels. It is probably the most used 
character in the Lojban alphabet.

Tcyk