On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 14:01:46 -0800 Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote: > So, I don't think that anyone searching on loglan will have to do too > much work to find lojban... > > -Robin Just like me. In Robert A Heinlein's "The Number of the Beast", loglan is mentioned in the context of programming languages. It sounded familiar, and I thought maybe it was a dialect of fortran (heh!), so I hit google to find more info about it. I quickly found the loglan web site, and some other sites. I also found the lojban site, but at first, it seemed like a half-assed remake of loglan (alas, I can't remember the reason for this opinion anymore, it may have been the years old "we're working on this wordlist/book/etc" notices). So I started learning loglan. After a week or so, I wondered how big of a community loglan had, and could find virtually no online presence beyond the official site. It was this fact that lead me back to lojban. I took a longer look at it, and then discovered the IRC channel, and a thriving wiki and several sites. A community! I kept on with learning lojban instead of loglan, and came to realize that it was certainly not a half-assed version of loglan, and it had the important advantage of actually having people with whom I could converse in it. So, there you have a large part of why I don't think loglan should be at all relevant to lojbanists, except as historical data . -- Theodore Reed (rizen/bancus) -==- http://www.surreality.us/ ~OpenPGP Signed/Encrypted Mail Preferred; Finger me for my public key!~ "I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way." -- Robert Frost
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