Re: Belated Xmas present

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Nick Nicholas scripsit:

> I've submitted it for that Journal of Universal Language thing. It's just
> two days' work, and it shows; then again, I hardly think the Journal is any
> more serious than that. Comments welcome; I'll sneak them in to the final
> version, or something...

A wonderful Christmas gift indeed, and a great piece of participant
observership!  It provides the unknowledgeable-but-interested
outsider with the sense of being inside the Lojban community.

Two comments: there is no reason as far as I am concerned (though it
may serve your rhetorical purposes) to burke my identity as the
author of the "computerniks" remark; and you speak of me
"warning" against things like "le catra be vo'a" = "the killer of
himself", whereas my Wiki page meant to mark that as a Good Thing,
not a Bad Thing.  (Shoulda used an attitudinal.)

Also, use a spelling checker!

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