Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 39335 invoked from network); 23 Feb 2005 21:35:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m7.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 23 Feb 2005 21:35:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 23 Feb 2005 21:35:28 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1D44AF-00039U-4O for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:35:23 -0800 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D449K-00037E-M0; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:34:26 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:34:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1D4498-000370-7P for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:34:14 -0800 Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:34:14 -0800 Message-ID: <20050223213414.GR29535@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20050221164116.50682.qmail@web81305.mail.yahoo.com> <1109145928.8091.5.camel@localhost> <537d06d0050223001579349f71@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <537d06d0050223001579349f71@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i X-archive-position: 9522 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-list To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell Reply-To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban] Re: blast from the past X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 23889 Content-Length: 953 Lines: 35 On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 09:15:45AM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:05:28 -0800, Theodore Reed > wrote: > > I hit google. I found both Lojban and Loglan. I initially > > dismissed Lojban because it appeared to be a half-assed fork > > from people who decided that they didn't like the way Loglan was > > being run > > That's the impression I also got the first time I came across a > mention of those languages :) I, on the other hand: - did a web search for "logical language" (this is around 1997 or so?) - found both almost immediately - asked Altivista what the difference was - discovered that Loglan was under copyright - laughed my ass off, and have ignored Loglan ever since -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/