Re: [lojban] Michael Everson, What Do You Want From Us?

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

A dictionary.  Please patiently give me a day or two; I'm about to
blow that topic wide open.

-Robin

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 01:32:09PM -0400, Luke Bergen wrote:
> Matt, aside from this conversation we've been having with Michael,
> what is stopping the LLG from publishing it's own works?  With so
> few works published already I would probably buy just about
> anything that DID get published.  What is stopping the LLG from
> publishing la .alis, lo nu binxo, la nicte cadzu (once it's
> finished), etc...?
> 
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Christopher Doty <suomichris@gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > Plus one.  This is really obnoxious, as Michael seems content to do
> > whatever he is going to do anyway, which some will like and some won't; I
> > fail to see how 100s of emails about it does anything but annoy.
> >
> > I do think there is room for discussion about how/if to use quotation marks
> > and the like, but Michael seems to not want to participate in this, and I
> > think any discussion about such issues should be divorced from this one
> > publication.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:12, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Every once in a while, someone discovers Lojban and comes on the list
> >> to tell us how much they don't like it. But we can't do language
> >> reform at so deep a level, even if we wanted to, so those
> >> conversations are, to me, pointless and uninteresting.
> >>
> >> This seems like another case of it. We lack the power to stop you
> >> publishing your book, so what has me confused is, why don't you? What
> >> are you trying to achieve here? Do you want or need something from us?
> >> Does it just give you some kind of gratification to apply a lot of
> >> negative adjectives to Lojban? Or what?
> >>
> >> I've trawled through more of this endless discussion than I should
> >> have. I am bored now. I don't want to read any more, so your reply is
> >> probably the last email I will read on this topic. Make it concise.
> >>
> >> -Matt
> >>
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