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Re: [lojban] lojban audial recognition etc.
pc:
#Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de writes:
#> BTW, IMHO one reason for new Lojban-interested people getting bored off and
#> leaving again might be long philosophical threads of
#> the DJUNO/KRICI kind
[...]
#> Shouldn't we better leave the ivory tower and turn toward people instead of
#> "linguistic" specialties as sort of an oblivious and eccentric navel gazing?
#
#Yes, but... those "ivory tower discussions" get started precisely because
#people have practical problems about how to say bip or what they have
#actually said when they say boo.
[...]
#The content of the discussion may get technical or polyglot or abstract, but
#the motivation is always ultimately practical.
I am interested in Lojban only for the scope it affords for ivory-tower navel
gazing.
I've always been in favour of list-splitting.
Unless I am hallucinating this memory, the subject-line tag solution has been
tried, but the tags were based on gismu and (therefore?) most people couldn't
remember them.
--And.