Received: from localhost ([::1]:50988 helo=stodi.digitalkingdom.org) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1YirY1-0006S6-3v; Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:42:09 -0700 Received: from eastrmfepo102.cox.net ([68.230.241.214]:40941) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1YirXs-0006Rc-Ga for llg-members@lojban.org; Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:42:07 -0700 Received: from eastrmimpo109 ([68.230.241.222]) by eastrmfepo102.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.01.05.15 201-2260-151-145-20131218) with ESMTP id <20150416214154.WTRQ21735.eastrmfepo102.cox.net@eastrmimpo109> for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2015 17:41:54 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.102] ([72.209.242.63]) by eastrmimpo109 with cox id Glhs1q00w1Nn1eG01lhtkt; Thu, 16 Apr 2015 17:41:53 -0400 X-CT-Class: Clean X-CT-Score: 0.00 X-CT-RefID: str=0001.0A020203.55302CA1.023A,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-CT-Spam: 0 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=EpUMW1gA c=1 sm=1 a=sOxKrxY1QYXBcFVBIkZEyQ==:17 a=JJ1bDv3c7YsA:10 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=8YJikuA2AAAA:8 a=YSCbEno4FfJ40-uJvp4A:9 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 a=sOxKrxY1QYXBcFVBIkZEyQ==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Authentication-Results: cox.net; none Message-ID: <55302CD5.8030805@lojban.org> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 17:42:45 -0400 From: "Bob LeChevalier, President and Founder - LLG" Organization: The Logical Language Group, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: llg-members@lojban.org References: <5502321A.2050208@lojban.org> <551ADCFF.20709@lojban.org> <552CA608.50200@lojban.org> <552D0CC2.7080502@selpahi.de> <552DA91A.8090207@lojban.org> In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_bar: - Subject: Re: [Llg-members] New Business: other topics X-BeenThere: llg-members@lojban.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: llg-members@lojban.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Errors-To: llg-members-bounces@lojban.org On 4/16/2015 3:36 AM, And Rosta wrote: > > So, a related thought: the LLG's mission, according to the bylaws, is > broader than just Lojban. Engelang topics byond the language with which > we are primarily associated, and relevant studies of "the relationships > between language, thought, and human culture" are very much on topic for > us. And part of our stated purpose is also "to conduct and support > experimental and scholarly research in these fields [various social > sciences] as they may bear upon the problems of artificial language > development; to communicate with and to educate interested persons and > organizations about these activities; to devise and develop means and > instruments needed for these activities; and to accumulate and publish > the results of such studies and developments." > > > > Should we be publishing a journal? > > No. There isn't enough potentially available good-quality content, and > nowadays there isn't a shortage of publication outlets. > > > If not, what else could we do to better support such research? > > I tend to think that that bit of LLG's mission is actually not > compatible with the collective will of the Lojban community, and that > the latter should overrule the former. However, if the former was to be > supported then it should take the form of developing a loglang design > that is as fit for purpose as possible: that's the best combination of > what's useful to linguistics, what's unavailable elsewhere, and what is > an area where LLG has a good concentration of expertise and experience. > But even then, I'm not sure what LLG could concretely do, apart from > maybe providing a focus and gravitational centre for such an enterprise. > And to repeat my initial point, I think there'd be a lot of hostility in > the community to LLG supporting what many would perceive as a rival to > Lojban. > > --And. The broader mission statement allows us to go beyond Lojban-related activities, but does not require us to do so. We have, among other things, hosted the Klingon Language Institute web pages for several years, and there is no question that this is within our charter, should LLG ever spend money on that hosting. The charter becomes important when dealing with the consequences of being a non-profit "charity" organization allowing (in the US) tax-deductible donations, so I wrote it rather broadly. lopjbab _______________________________________________ Llg-members mailing list Llg-members@lojban.org http://mail.lojban.org/mailman/listinfo/llg-members