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 .