In a message dated 9/10/2001 2:09:23 PM Central Daylight Time,
xod@sixgirls.org writes:
This was my fear with all this work on a Tengwar Lojban mode. I spent many
months working with Tengwar back in high school and appreciate its beauty.
But I am afraid to associate Lojban, whose seriousness is at question
merely because it is a conlang, with the frivolous, nerdy reputation of
sci fi conventions, sword and sorcery, and Dungeons and Dragons. Lojban is
more serious than people think, and it needs to do everything possible to
appear that way. There is a lot of weird, goofy, and useless junk on the
net.
Amen and Hallelujah! Though I doubt it does all that much harm (we don't
have enough recognition to be seriously harmed), but it does foster an
attitude -- and possibly collect a few attituded.
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