On Saturday, November 30, 2002, at 08:07 PM, Invent Yourself wrote:
Are you suggesting that the toggle be incorporated into the officialma'oste in order to bribe the remaining five Loglan people -- none of whomhave even asked for this cmavo -- into learning Lojban?
What?! You think that there are only five Loglan people who might be interested in lojban? That explains your idiotic remarks, I suppose. I personally know more than thirty persons who were interested in Loglan at one time or another, but are not at all active in lojban. I have been interested in Loglan since the mid 1970s when I first read JCB's Scientific American article, which my father had in his library. I started a Loglan club in my high school. I have seen copies of the Loglan books in the offices of a linguistics professors and an IBM programmer. There are some Loglan sleeper cells and singletons out there who have been waiting for lojban for decades, though perhaps they don't know it.
I don't know if the toggle cmavo is a good idea or not. I do know that arrogance is not a very good attractive quality for a community which seeks to grow.
-Steven