[lojban] Re: Lojban in The Wall Street Journal

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

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 09:28:47AM -0300, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> <http://online.wsj.com/google_login.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB115802923001560290.html%3Fmod%3Dgooglenews_wsj>
> 
> Go Hartmut!

(I happen to have the full text, but can't distribute it)

The only other mention of Lojban (other than what's in that clip
above) in the article is:

    Mr. Pilch began FFII in 1998, as little more than a Web site. As
    news spread, he began getting small donations from like-minded
    programmers and small businesses. His growing cadre of
    volunteers, however, struggled to remember the Lojban words,
    such as "Cnino" ("news") and "Penmi" ("events"), that Mr. Pilch
    used to name FFII email lists.

    "It would have been easier just to call them 'news' and
    'events,' " says German university student Andre Rebentisch, who
    helps administer the lists. Still, more than 200 people
    eventually registered to help maintain FFII's member-edited
    site.

So it's not exactly sympathetic.  :-)

And if those words are correct representations of his intended
translations, umm, he needs to read up on some things.   :-)

However, I don't think it really crosses the line to bad publicity.

-Robin

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