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Re: [lojban] TLI and the LLG: Reunited At Last!



Robin,

This is fantastic news!
2005 would be a great year to have the first (annual?) combined 
Loglan/Lojban conference...

la iuban.

Robin Lee Powell wrote:

>On behalf of the Board of the Logical Language Group *and* the Board
>of The Loglan Institute, I am extremely pleased to announce that on
>a board meeting on Friday, March 25, a plan was agreed upon to merge
>these two organizations.
>
>We've been working on this privately for some months now, and we
>believe you'll all be happy with the results.
>
>The Boards of the LLG and TLI have decided on the following
>organizational changes:
>
>   - Both TLI and the LLG will be dissolved, and members and
>     assets be transferred to a new organization.
>
>   - The name of the new organization will be The Loglan Group.
>
>The language reapproachment will take place in several ways:
>
>   - The cmavo xo'a, of selma'o XOhA, will signal a shift in Lojban
>     to TLI Loglan.  The LW hoa, conversely, will shift from TLI
>     Loglan to Lojban.  While the former is technically subject to
>     BPFK approval, we expect it to pass, since it does not violate
>     prior usage.  The latter has already been approved by TLI.
>
>   - The existing TLI Loglan YACC grammar will be converted into PEG
>     and incorporated into the Lojban formal grammar, so that
>     cross-language parsing will be trivial.
>
>   - Loglan prims will be imported as Lojban gismu, except in cases
>     where there already exists a gismu with the exact same meaning,
>     or it is blocked by existing gismu forms.
>
>   - The reapproachment orthography (as per CLL, page 46) will be
>     made official, and will be the standard for all LLG produced
>     Loglan documents.
>
>With this accomplished, the Loglan project will go down in history
>as not just the only constructed language to survive a schism, but
>also the first to be re-united.
>
>.a'o sai kansa xamgu balvi / Ao kinci gudbi futci!
>
>-Robin
>
>  
>




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