Lojbab:
#On one extreme we have Michael Helsem, whose poetic efforts at Lojban set a
#very non-hardline extreme of usage. But that extreme clearly is NOT
#driving usage because few users emulate Michael. More of them try to
#emulate xod, or Jorge, or Nick, who each have their own styles that are
#more or less logically rigorous. At the other extreme is And, who has not
#for the most part mirrored Michael by presenting us with a usage that
#reflects his image of the language.
There are several reasons why I write so little Lojban, but there is one
reason
in particular why I don't try to influence others' usage through my own. This
reason is that there is no mechanism for abbreviation, for creating more
concise locutions that do not increase vagueness. There is no 'Zipf valve'
-- no mechanism for shortening locutions whose length is not appropriately
proportional to their frequency.