Re: [lojban] la .alis.

[Michael Everson <michael.everson@gmail.com>]

On 31 Mar 2010, at 14:31, Efrain Caro wrote:

> Who exactly will you sell your book to?

To Carrollian collectors, and, evidently, to at least some of the people who have participated in this discussion, in particular those who hold opinions like this:

>>> I bet the "normal" look will do wonders for lojban popularity.  Right now, lojban looks like a specialized
>>> language for some bizarre, obscure purpose such as defining ontologies for Prolog or Lisp expert systems.  And who besides purists could use it in that form?  But after your style is finalized, lojban should finally be recognizable as a real tongue, useful for ordinary human-to-human interaction.  Besides, beautiful typography never hurts book sales.


> I surely won't buy it with the formating you want to use,

That's really up to you. Plenty of people won't buy it, since it's not in English.

> and I see a lot of opposition to your ideas.

And yet there is support as well, as you yourself have seen. 

At this point I am interested in the continuing discussion.

Michael

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