[lojban] TLI and the LLG: Reunited At Last!

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

On behalf of the Board of the Logical Language Group *and* the Board
of The Loglan Institute, I am extremely pleased to announce that on
a board meeting on Friday, March 25, a plan was agreed upon to merge
these two organizations.

We've been working on this privately for some months now, and we
believe you'll all be happy with the results.

The Boards of the LLG and TLI have decided on the following
organizational changes:

   - Both TLI and the LLG will be dissolved, and members and
     assets be transferred to a new organization.

   - The name of the new organization will be The Loglan Group.

The language reapproachment will take place in several ways:

   - The cmavo xo'a, of selma'o XOhA, will signal a shift in Lojban
     to TLI Loglan.  The LW hoa, conversely, will shift from TLI
     Loglan to Lojban.  While the former is technically subject to
     BPFK approval, we expect it to pass, since it does not violate
     prior usage.  The latter has already been approved by TLI.

   - The existing TLI Loglan YACC grammar will be converted into PEG
     and incorporated into the Lojban formal grammar, so that
     cross-language parsing will be trivial.

   - Loglan prims will be imported as Lojban gismu, except in cases
     where there already exists a gismu with the exact same meaning,
     or it is blocked by existing gismu forms.

   - The reapproachment orthography (as per CLL, page 46) will be
     made official, and will be the standard for all LLG produced
     Loglan documents.

With this accomplished, the Loglan project will go down in history
as not just the only constructed language to survive a schism, but
also the first to be re-united.

.a'o sai kansa xamgu balvi / Ao kinci gudbi futci!

-Robin

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