[lojban] rapprochement

["And Rosta" <a.rosta@pmail.net>]

From: "And Rosta" <a.rosta@pmail.net>

> >From: Alex Leith <alexl@compuserve.com>
> >
> >I've been pondering a rapprochement between Loglan and Lojban, and Bob
> >McIvor is thinking that way too. 

I do hope that Lojbanistan takes a proactive stance on this, more than
just wishing Loglan good luck. As far as I am aware, there have been
many IAL schisms, but never a reunification, so that would be a shining
first. And the longer it is delayed, the more people will have a vested
interest in there not being a reunification (because they won't want to
do any extra learning). Without reunification, even with goodwill the
two lgs would be rivals, and though Lojban is altogether the more
vigorous, it will always be Pepsi to Loglan's Coke.

I suggested in a message to the Loglanists list that we could start
by having a new language with two alternate lexicogrammars, i.e. Lojban
and classical Loglan. A shared cmavo could indicate which was being
used. A next stage would be to define lexical equivalences for the
cmavo, and possibly for the gismu. After that, it could be left to
usage of the combined speech communities to determine what the
eventual product would look like.

I suppose the reason why I think all this would be such a good idea is
that reunification would be a major achievement, and one in the Lojban
(and possibly Loglan) spirit, given that Lojban is a rare example of
something that was successfully created through cooperative and
collective endeavour.

--And.

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