[lojban] Re: Question about apparent inconsistency with "nixli".

[Pan Mistwood <panmistwood@gmail.com>]

All right. Thank you for explaining it. I now understand that point of
view.


On Dec 1, 5:29 am, John E Clifford <kali9pu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Claiming to be an auxlang gets a language involved in a lot of messy politics
> and restricts the range of people who will investigate it,  Lojban (and usually
> Loglan before it) has always stayed away from that claim.  But what we have said
> from time to time is that. if Logjam lives up to its promise in other areas, we
> would not be surprised if it were adopted by people around the world and formed
> a network of contacts across language barriers.  This would be a nice side
> effect, but it is not a goal, and nothing (barring some slips here and there
> from overenthusiastic supporters) in Logjam's history has been based on
> achieving auxlang status.
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Pan Mistwood <panmistw...@gmail.com>
> To: lojban <lojban@googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Wed, December 1, 2010 4:46:26 AM
> Subject: [lojban] Re: Question about apparent inconsistency with "nixli".
>
> > It isn't, but thanks for playing.
> > That has NEVER been one of our goals.
> > Conlang != auxlang
>
> I apologise for the misunderstanding. Several sources mention the
> potential future application of Lojban as an international auxiliary
> language. Wikipedia's page on Lojban indicates one goal recognised by
> the community (despite not being the initial goal behind creation of
> the language) being its use as an auxlang. The lojban.org wiki page
> describing "The Complete Lojban Language" mentions a community forming
> with this goal in mind. And Pierre Janton in 1993 classified logical
> languages (which would include Loglan and Lojban, I presume) as a kind
> of auxlang. So I understand that Lojban was not initially aimed to be
> an auxlang, but "never one of our goals" is kind of isolating to just
> one group's goals since there undeniably are those in the community
> who have the goal of using it as an auxlang.
>
> Also, "conlang != auxlang" is irrelevant. An auxlang can be a conlang.
> I wasn't implying that Lojban was not a conlang.
>
> > Just wait two months. If THAT is your biggest complaint by then, you
> > should consider yourself very very lucky.
>
> OK, thank you for your feedback.
>
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