At 07:04 PM 11/24/01 -0500, pycyn@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 11/24/2001 11:21:05 AM Central Standard Time, ragnarok@pobox.com writes:But how old was the language at that time? Personally, I would date modern Lojban from the loglan/lojban split, which IIRC makes it about 12 years old. And the first person to confront Lojbab speaking Lojban was probably not a club member, as I don't beleive there was a mailing list or wiki yet.She was, of course, insofar as there was a club. and so were the next half-dozen or so.
Well yes, I should not forget Nora. We exchanged our wedding vows in Oct 1987 in 30%/70% Lojban/Loglan hybrid language, and spent our honeymoon in Williamsburg VA attempting to talk to each other with our respective 300 word vocabularies, which overlapped each other only around 30%.
lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org