Re: [lojban] Re: Dialects

[Stela Selckiku <selckiku@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Lindar <lindarthebard@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I think that's a bit anti-internet biased. I personally consider
> various areas of the internet to be different geographic regions.

I do think it's entirely possible for a region of the internet to be
split off in a way that would cause dialect formation.  We just don't
have any spaces in the virtual Lojbanistan that are separated,
everywhere is open to everyone and so there's a lot of cross
pollination that mostly flattens the differences.  I bet we could
produce some dialectical divergence if we just created some spaces
that were only open to a subset of the community-- but that's probably
a terrible idea. :)

If there were regular in person meetings somewhere, that would create
a natural barrier because it would be hard for anyone from another
place to attend.  I'm not sure how much of a dialect would really form
though, because the innovations in that group would probably escape
fairly quickly to the rest of us when we talked to them online or saw
videos from their meetings.  Knowing Lojbanists though I'd be
surprised if they didn't at least have a bunch of in-jokes!  It'll be
interesting to observe.

mi'e la stela selckiku
mu'o

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