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[lojban] Re: Loglan google hits.




On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 06:25  PM, Theodore Reed wrote:

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 14:01:46 -0800
Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:

So, I don't think that anyone searching on loglan will have to do too
much work to find lojban...

-Robin

Just like me.

In Robert A Heinlein's "The Number of the Beast", loglan is mentioned in the context of programming languages. It sounded familiar, and I thought
maybe it was a dialect of fortran (heh!), so I hit google to find more
info about it. I quickly found the loglan web site, and some other
sites. I also found the lojban site, but at first, it seemed like a
half-assed remake of loglan (alas, I can't remember the reason for this
opinion anymore, it may have been the years old "we're working on this
wordlist/book/etc" notices). So I started learning loglan.

After a week or so, I wondered how big of a community loglan had, and
could find virtually no online presence beyond the official site. It was
this fact that lead me back to lojban. I took a longer look at it, and
then discovered the IRC channel, and a thriving wiki and several sites.
A community! I kept on with learning lojban instead of loglan, and came
to realize that it was certainly not a half-assed version of loglan, and
it had the important advantage of actually having people with whom I
could converse in it.

So, there you have a large part of why I don't think loglan should be at
all relevant to lojbanists, except as historical data .

OOH, you were so close! The word Loglan *is* relevant to LLG Loglan (which you call lojban) in that a google search should reflect reality. Many people will do as you and I did: use a search engine to find out about LOGLAN. When they do, they should find LLG Loglan since LLG Loglan is a vital language with an active community while TLI Loglan is moribund. That fact should be reflected in google searches. Most people click on the first hit if it appears to be relevant to their search.