RE: [lojban] Re: Why we should cancel the vote or all vote NO (was RE: Official Statement- LLG Board approves new baseline policy

[sbelknap <sbelknap@uic.edu>]

>===== Original Message From rmcivor@macsrule.com =====
>On Mardi, d‚ce 3, 2002, at 08:30 US/Eastern, And Rosta wrote:
>
>> I have long suspected that JCB was so pissed off at you not just for
>> splitting the language but for doing it with such poor taste and poor
>> discernment (from his perspective, at least). I do think that the
>> average person who knows neither language would, if faced with a
>> page of Loglan and a page of Lojban, find the Loglan somewhat pleasing
>> and the Lojban somewhat monstrous. Certainly my aesthetic judgements
>> are thus. So your crime was not only apostasy but also perversion.
>>
>
>	Indeed this is a common reason for newbies to choose Loglan.

The alternative lojban orthography may look more pleasing to those familiar
with European languages. This seems silly to me. Loglan/lojban are both very
strange languages. Loglan's superficial appearance of familiarity is highly
misleading.