[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban in Google.

[Michael <space3000@gmail.com>]

> (Which makes sense if you consider their goal to increase
> accessibility -- and I highly doubt that there is anyone who speaks
> Lojban better than one of the languages already supported by Google.)

Well... I guess that doesn't cost them money (not significat money) to
add Lojban.
If it would cost money they would erase Hacker, Klingon and Ewmew Fudd
(the last one not being a language or a dialect, but rather a funny
comic style of writing).
With enough requests and demands... or any kind of petition... we may
place Lojbanistan on the map (.u'i zo'o I'm starting to feel myself
like a polititician now:) ).
To spread language... any language one has to encourage people to
speak it. Advertise it, write important information on it, create
reading material, and whenever possible, write stuff that is better
understood in it, than any other language (poetry etc.).
Eliezer ben Yehuda who have revived Hebrew, used it as the only spoken
language at home. His wife didn't know a word in Hebrew, and that
didn't stop him from speaking her only in it. He wouldn't let her sing
their children lullybies in any other language etc. Jews in Israel in
the beggining of 20th century were encouraged to speak Hebrew, up to
the point, where special squads annoyed people on the streets asking
them not to speak any language but the language of ancestors.
I don't suggest using any of those techniques for Lojban, but with
enough determination... As Herzel said "If you wish, it won't be just
a legend".