In a message dated 11/24/2001 11:31:01 AM Central Standard Time, ragnarok@pobox.com writes:
- esperanto may have been bigger, but Actually, pc has a pretty good -- even rather exaggerated -- estimate of Lojban's size, including the size of the genuinely competent users. The point was merely that we should not stress our community, since it has not done much of the sort of things that cruisers will notice and admire -- translations of classics, original work, even handy-dandy manuals (as opposed to thorough reference grammars). What we have done is mostly pretty good, once it gets accepted (which takes a while -- Esperanto had the advantage of coming from one man fully done and with a top-down structure in place), but it isn't likely to awe anyone looking at conlang sites. |