[lojban] Re: blast from the past

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 09:15:45AM +0100, Philip Newton wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:05:28 -0800, Theodore Reed
> <treed@surreality.us> wrote:
> > I hit google. I found both Lojban and Loglan. I initially
> > dismissed Lojban because it appeared to be a half-assed fork
> > from people who decided that they didn't like the way Loglan was
> > being run
> 
> That's the impression I also got the first time I came across a
> mention of those languages :)

I, on the other hand:

- did a web search for "logical language" (this is around 1997 or
  so?)

- found both almost immediately

- asked Altivista what the difference was

- discovered that Loglan was under copyright

- laughed my ass off, and have ignored Loglan ever since

-Robin

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