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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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