[lojban] Re: How to spread the word

[Minimiscience <minimiscience@gmail.com>]

de'i li 05 pi'e 09 pi'e 2008 la'o fy. Auke Booij .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra.
> I hope you didn't think of this yet, because that would suggest it's not
> working.
.skamyxatra

We've already thought of this, in a way.  Most Lojban propaganda emphasises its
potential usefulness for writing scientific & Mathematical papers, and some
other fields, such as law, have also been mentioned as potential benefactors of
the language.  However, as far as I can tell, the problem isn't that it's not
working.  The problem is that *no one who knows Lojban truly cares about it*.

No one is actually passionate about the language to the point of being willing
to make some great contribution and carry it through to the end.  The committee
in charge of ironing out the language recently sent out an e-mail asking for a
taskmaster in the hopes of getting around their "serious lack of momentum."
Almost all of the few original Lojban works attempted have either been very
short or else have been abandoned part of the way through (e.g., {la nicte
cadzu}).  The Lojban main page has two news items on it: one from March of this
year and one from May of last year.  The most frequently cited excuse for
failure to get around to working on a Lojban project is that it's not high
enough on one's list of priorities.  Huge swathes of the tiki are out of date,
and the dictionary may never be completed.  The Lojban portion of Wikipedia
(yes, people have been translating it) has 688 pages, 564 of which are "{na
mulno}" (stubs, not complete).  Either Lojban attracts people with schizoid
personality disorder, or else the language is simply lacking in any features to
capture people's imagination and keep it captured long enough for them to
spread the joy to others.

I've been holding in that thought for a while.  If anyone disagrees, the best
way to disprove me is to do something truly great & labor-intensive for Lojban.

mu'omi'e la'o gy. Minimiscience .gy.

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