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Re: [lojban] la .alis.
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 04:06:11PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell scripsit:
>
> > I'll speak up (briefly, since it wasn't requested) for that
> > side: I won't buy a book claiming to be Lojban that uses
> > seriously non-Lojban-standard typographic conventions, and I
> > will decry it to anyone who asks.
>
> Dude. You never heard of "All publicity is good publicity"?
I have. I think it's a crock of shit. If a board member was
arrested for beating children and a news article said that ey was a
member of a "strange, made-up language named Lojban", this would
*NOT* be good publicity.
More relevantly to the matter at hand, see my previous post; I
really really don't want to have to deal with a crop of newbies
using some slaughtered Latin orthography because they have a book to
point at so they can tell me I'm wrong and it's OK.
> I don't see you decrying "la .alis." because of the xorxes-anity
> of the text.
Going through it *specifically* for that purpose has been on my
to-do list since it was published. The main reason I haven't done
it yet is that the BPFK needs to finish before I will even *know*
what in xorban and what isn't.
Also, it's *Alice*. I *expect* a bunch of weird uses and coinings
and grammatical errors and suchlike; anything else would be a bad
translation. Seperate issue, though; last I looked (many years ago)
there are somethings in there that are pure xorban, and that I was
Very Much Unhappy With.
-Robin
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