A recent Lojbanic history lesson (was Re: [lojban] How it should have been. And how it could be.)

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 02:25:35PM -0500, Hugh O'Byrne wrote:
> > 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.

The specific comment of mine about the community being OK with
breaking past usage (which is what I hope you're referring to,
otherwise I'm just confused) is a reference to the discussion that
resulted from an essay I wrote last year; here's the threads.

http://groups.google.com/group/lojban/browse_frm/thread/c67f210addc06a0c

http://groups.google.com/group/lojban/browse_frm/thread/ae71ea92dbbfd5b1

http://groups.google.com/group/lojban/browse_frm/thread/8c345f62e9f946ce

http://groups.google.com/group/lojban/browse_frm/thread/33d26e8385fed297

You will discover slightly more than two people involved; there are
something like 300 total messages in those threads.

I actually was quite shocked at the response, which was an
overwhelming preference for tinkering as long as the language wasn't
broken too much.   I was expecting it to be more more even.

-Robin

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