From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Nov 06 06:29:35 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:29:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N6PoV-0007fS-TQ for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:29:35 -0800 Received: from sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no ([129.241.210.67]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N6PoK-0007ep-DU for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:29:14 -0800 Received: from hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (unknown [IPv6:2001:700:300:2000:2a0:c9ff:feab:76e2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B9A39478E for ; Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:28:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (8.13.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id nA6ERtNC005546 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:27:55 +0100 Received: (from arj@localhost) by hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id nA6ERmKv005545 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:27:48 +0100 Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:27:48 +0100 From: Arnt Richard Johansen To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Abstractors {ni} and {jei} (and {ka}) Message-ID: <20091106142748.GC8278@nvg.org> References: <925d17560911060604r7d90fa80oa357d62396c67234@mail.gmail.com> <5715b9300911060611m459428bcvf3173a00e31b57c6@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5715b9300911060611m459428bcvf3173a00e31b57c6@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-NVG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-NVG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: arj@nvg.ntnu.no X-archive-position: 16455 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: arj@nvg.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 09:11:34AM -0500, Luke Bergen wrote: > that'd be awesome. I've heard that the main reason we're not trying to > promote lojban yet is that it's not "complete". But for completion the bpfk > needs to finish definitions. But for bpfk to finish definitions they need > to not be "comatose". But there are a set number of spots on it and no-one > wants to relinquish their seat. This turns out not to be the case. There is an (informal) barrier to entry based on knowledge, but no fixed number of seats. -- Arnt Richard Johansen http://arj.nvg.org/ Vacuum cleaners suck. Kings rule. Ice is cool. To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.