From pycyn@aol.com Mon Sep 10 14:35:27 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_1); 10 Sep 2001 21:35:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 49931 invoked from network); 10 Sep 2001 21:17:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 10 Sep 2001 21:17:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-d06.mx.aol.com) (205.188.157.38) by mta1 with SMTP; 10 Sep 2001 21:17:23 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-d06.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.4.) id r.14.1a5b55c9 (4359) for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 17:17:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <14.1a5b55c9.28ce87df@aol.com> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 17:17:19 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Conlang Ethnologue entries To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_14.1a5b55c9.28ce87df_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10535 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 10627 --part1_14.1a5b55c9.28ce87df_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/10/2001 2:09:23 PM Central Daylight Time, xod@sixgirls.org writes: > This was my fear with all this work on a Tengwar Lojban mode. I spent many > months working with Tengwar back in high school and appreciate its beauty. > But I am afraid to associate Lojban, whose seriousness is at question > merely because it is a conlang, with the frivolous, nerdy reputation of > sci fi conventions, sword and sorcery, and Dungeons and Dragons. Lojban is > more serious than people think, and it needs to do everything possible to > appear that way. There is a lot of weird, goofy, and useless junk on the > net. > Amen and Hallelujah! Though I doubt it does all that much harm (we don't have enough recognition to be seriously harmed), but it does foster an attitude -- and possibly collect a few attituded. --part1_14.1a5b55c9.28ce87df_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/10/2001 2:09:23 PM Central Daylight Time,
xod@sixgirls.org writes:


This was my fear with all this work on a Tengwar Lojban mode. I spent many
months working with Tengwar back in high school and appreciate its beauty.
But I am afraid to associate Lojban, whose seriousness is at question
merely because it is a conlang, with the frivolous, nerdy reputation of
sci fi conventions, sword and sorcery, and Dungeons and Dragons. Lojban is
more serious than people think, and it needs to do everything possible to
appear that way. There is a lot of weird, goofy, and useless junk on the
net.


Amen and Hallelujah!  Though I doubt it does all that much harm (we don't
have enough recognition to be seriously harmed), but it does foster an
attitude -- and possibly collect a few attituded. --part1_14.1a5b55c9.28ce87df_boundary--