Re: [lojban] Response ro Robin's "Essay on the future of Lojban"

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

On 10 Apr 2010, at 09:22, Bob LeChevalier wrote:

> The trouble is, to the linguists I've dealt with (excepting you, since you just self-identified as one in another post), Lojban is not YET a success as a language period, and won't be a language until it has a native speaker community.

Allow me to be the second linguist you know who thinks that Lojban is a success as a language. Whatever its imperfections may be -- ;-) typographic and otherwise -- it's got translatable (and back-translatable) literature, and there is evidence of people using it to communicate over beer in a pub. 

Cornish (which died out in the 18th century but was revived in the 20th) has hardly a native speaker community. There are some isolated native speakers who grew up with the language as their parents spoke it to them. But there are many revivalists who can speak and write the language, natively or not.

Michael

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