Re: [lojban] Re: Historians: Do you happen to know when lojban was forked off loglan?

[Robert LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>]

najrut wrote:
> Can anybody please tell us when and how Laadan indicators were 
> introduced into Loglan/Lojban?

If I dig through the mail files, I can probably find the exact date, but 
I believe it was sometime in 1988.

Longtime Loglanist/Lojbanist Bob Chassell had urged us to look at the 
ideas used in Laadan, but didn't suggest anything in particular.  Nora 
had read Elgin's novels and was somewhat familiar with the language 
concept, but not the details (I later read them as well).

But then in 1988, Don Simpson, an SF area Lojbanist, wrote an essay, 
which you can find here, rather early in the file (look for his name):

http://www.lojban.org/files/why-lojban/whylojb.txt

We probably added the words in a tentative way in 1988 at the time of 
the indicated JL, but the entire indicator system was overhauled in Fall 
1989, and that is when the current set was put in place.  The key event 
in that overhaul was a 1989 meeting in New Jersey that we had enroute 
back from Worldcon (Noreascon 3) in Boston, which was Labor Day weekend. 
 After that meeting, I wrote up a proposal which was discussed and 
approved in September/October, and which included the Laadan indicators.

lojbab

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