[lojban] Re: livejournal discrimination

[And Rosta <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

Bob LeChevalier, On 09/11/2006 22:11:
> > > Colin Fine, a skilled Lojbanist, tried LOkadin's trick of writing 
> > > without spaces back in 1992
>
> It's been 14 or 15 years so I can't be sure I remember them, but Colin wasn't a reformer.

Colin (like me) followed the rules of grammar and ignored the normative conventions of prevailing usage. E.g. I recollect him liking to place the selbri after all the sumti instead of between the first and second sumti. This approach contrasted with that of Nick, who felt that it was the emergence of stylistic conventions that would breathe life into the language, and with that of many other Lojbanists who felt that the lojbo community's main goal should be to build a speech community, to the achevement of which goal the flouting of normative conventions is plainly an impediment.

--And.


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