From jorne@eubot.com Fri Apr 01 17:42:02 2005 Return-Path: X-Sender: jorne@eubot.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 89017 invoked from network); 2 Apr 2005 01:42:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.167) by m26.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 2 Apr 2005 01:42:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lakermmtao04.cox.net) (68.230.240.35) by mta6.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 Apr 2005 01:42:01 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (really [70.179.101.17]) by lakermmtao04.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-118-20041027) with ESMTP id <20050402014201.OAGQ11124.lakermmtao04.cox.net@[127.0.0.1]>; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 20:42:01 -0500 Message-ID: <424DF867.9030808@eubot.com> Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 20:41:59 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <20050402011738.GL2378@chain.digitalkingdom.org> In-Reply-To: <20050402011738.GL2378@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: 68.230.240.35 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0 From: Brian Eubanks Subject: Re: [lojban] TLI and the LLG: Reunited At Last! X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=211033105 X-Yahoo-Profile: eubanksb X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 24101 Robin, This is fantastic news! 2005 would be a great year to have the first (annual?) combined Loglan/Lojban conference... la iuban. Robin Lee Powell wrote: >On behalf of the Board of the Logical Language Group *and* the Board >of The Loglan Institute, I am extremely pleased to announce that on >a board meeting on Friday, March 25, a plan was agreed upon to merge >these two organizations. > >We've been working on this privately for some months now, and we >believe you'll all be happy with the results. > >The Boards of the LLG and TLI have decided on the following >organizational changes: > > - Both TLI and the LLG will be dissolved, and members and > assets be transferred to a new organization. > > - The name of the new organization will be The Loglan Group. > >The language reapproachment will take place in several ways: > > - The cmavo xo'a, of selma'o XOhA, will signal a shift in Lojban > to TLI Loglan. The LW hoa, conversely, will shift from TLI > Loglan to Lojban. While the former is technically subject to > BPFK approval, we expect it to pass, since it does not violate > prior usage. The latter has already been approved by TLI. > > - The existing TLI Loglan YACC grammar will be converted into PEG > and incorporated into the Lojban formal grammar, so that > cross-language parsing will be trivial. > > - Loglan prims will be imported as Lojban gismu, except in cases > where there already exists a gismu with the exact same meaning, > or it is blocked by existing gismu forms. > > - The reapproachment orthography (as per CLL, page 46) will be > made official, and will be the standard for all LLG produced > Loglan documents. > >With this accomplished, the Loglan project will go down in history >as not just the only constructed language to survive a schism, but >also the first to be re-united. > >.a'o sai kansa xamgu balvi / Ao kinci gudbi futci! > >-Robin > > >