On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 02:12:50PM -0400, Craig wrote:
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> >> 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.
>
> I have yet to see a tape or transcript of that, despite repeated promises
> from Nick.
There was a brief mp3 a while back. I don't know if it was the
whole conversation. But there was english and people asking what
gismu mean, and it didn't seem like Goran understood very much of
what Nick said.
> >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).
>
> You don't think the number of badyxu'e purchases shows it's at least over
> thirty?
badyxu'e, eh? That's a new one...
There's a big difference between buying a book and taking an interest
in the language. (For example, I don't own a copy of the book).
Go by this: how many people do you regularly speak in lojban with?
For me it's about 5 of the people on IRC (though I've been hanging
out there a lot less regularly lately). How many do you regularly
speak *about* lojban with? For me it's the probably 20-30 regular
posters on this mailing list.
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