Re: [lojban] You're Doing it Wrong

[".alyn.post." <alyn.post@lodockikumazvati.org>]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 02:07:09AM -0700, Viral Lamb wrote:
>   But this isn't the same language I left years ago.

I'm personally inspired by Robin's essay as well, and hope to
manifest as much of it as I can.

The quickest summary I have of the situation is this:

 a) There are too few fluent speakers of Lojban.
 b) There are influential people in Lojbanistan that resist change
    to the status quo.  Either actively or simply by non-engagement.
 c) Some of these people *may* become less resistant to changing
    the status quo with a greater number of fluent speakers.
    Most particularly having enough fluent speakers to conduct
    conversations about changing the baseline in Lojban, rather
    than discussing it in English.
 d) Even if that's not true, demographics are on the side of
    changing the baseline.  The timeline is only a matter of 
    our ability to create more fluent speakers.
 e) The first and best thing you can do for Lojbanistan is to learn
    Lojban.  It would be great if you wanted to clean up and add
    learning material while you go, but make that secondary to using
    the language.

This community is still bootstrapping itself.  We have the most
well-specified lanugage ever, and the situation you describe is
exactly where we're at.  If you want something better than this
it frankly doesn't exist today, you have to help make it happen.

-Alan
-- 
.i ko djuno fi le do sevzi

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