Date: 18 Apr 2001 15:03:40 -0000
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From: lojban@yahoogroups.com 
To: lojban@yahoogroups.com 
Subject: Poll results for lojban 
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The following lojban poll is now closed.  Here are the 
final results: 


POLL QUESTION: What is/are the main reason(s) for your 
interest in Lojban? 

CHOICES AND RESULTS
- I like the internal structure of the language (bridi instead of sentences, tanru, collapsing nouns, adjectives, adverbs and verbs into selbri, having both time and space tenses, etc.), 20 votes, 25.64%  
- I would like to see Lojban put to use in a test of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, 5 votes, 6.41%  
- I would like to see Lojban put to use in the AI/NLP field (e.g. human/computer-interactions, knowledge database systems), 8 votes, 10.26%  
- Because of Lojban's cultural neutrality and lack of ambiguity, it should be promoted as an international auxillary language (as a competitor of Esperanto), 8 votes, 10.26%  
- Because of Lojban's cultural neutrality and lack of ambiguity, it should be promoted as the international language of science, 8 votes, 10.26%  
- Lojban allows me to think differently, or more clearly, 14 votes, 17.95%  
- Lojban is a difficult language, and I want to prove to myself that I am smart enough to learn it, 5 votes, 6.41%  
- Out of respect for James Cooke Brown and the work he put into his language, I wish to see to it that Lojban survives, 3 votes, 3.85%  
- I like all artificial languages; Lojban is just one of many languages that I am interested in, 4 votes, 5.13%  
- Other reasons, 2 votes, 2.56%  
- I like the sounds of the language (euphony), 1 votes, 1.28%  


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