Re: [lojban] How it should have been. And how it could be.

["Hugh O'Byrne" <hobyrne@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 01:26:33PM -0400, Michael Turniansky wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Robin Lee Powell
>> <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 03:35:26AM -0700, Muhammad Nael wrote:
>> >> I'm very much interested in the language but more so in its idea,
>> >> I'm promoting a custom -not yet existing- form of it; so, my
>> >> *looooong* list of questions is:
>> >>
>> >> For all the gurus and regular Lojbanists out there, imagine you're back
>> >> where it all started, but with your current experience, how would you like
>> >> Lojban to be?
>> >
>> > I refuse.  Sorry.  Most oldbies will; going down that path leads to
>> > too much frustration at the current state, and enacting such plans
>> > would break up the (currently pretty impressive) community.
>>
>> Funny, I was thinking the same thing. But I didn't even want to
>> bother saying it.
>
> Heh.
>
> Now, having said that, the community has made it clear that
> baby-steps that happen to break past usage are acceptable if they
> lead to more awesome, so over the next many years, we may be able to
> fix a lot of the frustrtating stuff; if you want to see that happen
> faster, help with CLLv1.1 (see
> http://groups.google.com/group/lojban/browse_thread/thread/8e9bb19d63d97c87
> ) and with vocab (see
> http://www.lojban.org/tiki/Functional+Vocabulary+List ).
> -Robin

Heh.  Apparently Robin's pretty impressive community consists of one
other person.

One thing that I would like to see is adoption of an alphabet such as
'Visible Speech'
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/visiblespeech.htm
- at least for written Lojban representation of other spoken languages.

Hugh

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