On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 09:55:54AM -0400, Robert LeChevalier wrote:
> At 12:07 AM 5/31/03 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 01:56:52AM -0500, Jordan DeLong wrote:
> >> On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 12:11:40AM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> >> > Craig scripsit:
> >> >
> >> > > >perhaps 300 who have some level of interest in the language.
> >> > > >Lojban has
> >> > >
> >> > > Huh. The last statistics I heard were way higher than that.
> >> > > What's the subscriptions on the mailing lists up to?
> >> >
> >> > Better safe than sorry.
> >>
> >> Then why not be safe about the fluency estimates also?
> >>
> >> My count on fluency is a nice big 0.
> >
> >Mine too.
>
> You didn't find Nick to be fluent when he was at LogFest?
>
> My count on fluency is 2. Nick, and Goran Topic (by Nick's report). I
> suspect that Jorge would qualify as well.
If you're going by that Nick-and-Goran conversation from 1995, I
don't think that was anywhere *close* to fluency.
Hell, Robin and I had a far more-fluent conversation than that on
the phone a little while ago, and it was still quite choppy (lots
of "xu do jimpe").
Nick may have improved since then, of course, but I seriously doubt
he's fluent by normal standards (no offense to nick intended).
Either way, though, 30 is just plain bogus. However, I'd think 30
is probably a pretty accurate count of the numer of people who are
interested in the language (for a definition of "interest" that
doesn't include people who've just heard of the language and lurk
on the mailing list).
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