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Re: Funny Hat (Was Re: [lojban] Re: [lojban-announcements] Essay on the future of Lojban, with a simple poll for the community.)



i'm all over that. it's like merit badges.



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From: Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>
To: lojban@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thu, Apr 8, 2010 7:26 pm
Subject: Funny Hat (Was Re: [lojban] Re: [lojban-announcements] Essay on the future of Lojban, with a simple poll for the community.)

Seriously, would it help spur work to be awarded a BPFK hat upon
completion of a section? And mailed new badges for the hat for each
new section completed? Because my Lojban-speaking girlfriend owns an
automated robotic embroidery machine.

-Matt


On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Minimiscience <minimiscience@gmail.com> wrote:
> de'i li 08 pi'e 04 pi'e 2010 la'o fy. Robin Lee Powell .fy. cusku zoi
> skamyxatra.
>> That's *ALWAYS* been the case.  I've *begged* people to join the
>> BPFK.  Begged and begged and begged and begged.  I always get utter
>> silence.
> .skamyxatra
>
> Really?  I've never encountered any of these requests.  Maybe I should go on
> IRC more.  Besides, I thought that in order to join the BPFK you had to be a
> member of the LLG, which required "competence" in one of several specific
> fields.
>
> Anyway, to get the ball rolling, I suppose I'll request membership.  My
> qualifications are:
>  - borderline autistic, obsessive-compulsive, pedantic undergraduate majoring
>   in computational mathematics
>  - currently working on Haskell/Perl/C libraries for manipulating Lojban words
>   & text: <http://github.com/jwodder/jbobaf>
>  - deep-seated & irrational dislike of cultural {gismu} and the tiki
>  - knowledge of mathematical operators beyond just the high-school level stuff
>   in VUhU
>  - desire to rewrite the entire language specification in a highly formal &
>   precise manner modeled after the ISO C99 standard.  I started this once but
>   never got past the morphology section.
>  - desire to rewrite the official {gismu} & {cmavo} lists *without* the
>   arbitrary 100-ish-character limit on the definition fields (Have you ever
>   heard of tab-separated values?), merging in definition fragments that were
>   relegated to the notes fields and generally making everything more
>   consistent, formal, and normative.  I once tried this as part of an attempt
>   at typesetting a decent dictionary (first with XML, then with JSON) but
>   never got very far.
>  - desire to usurp control of the BPFK and LLG as part of my over-arching goal
>   of world domination.  Time permitting, of course.
>
> So, do you send me a funny hat, or do I have to make my own?
>
> mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun.
>
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