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Re: [lojban] BPFK has approved cmavo swaps


 most people seem to simply ignore everything that happens.

Many people only ever speak up when they have something to complain about (usually whenever something appears to be changing). Why do none of those people ever participate in anything constructive? Why has everyone been ignoring la uakci's many attempts at getting the community to participate in things like his interactive story or the weekly poems?


I read the mailing lists, and I enjoy the practice of reading content in Lojban. However I am not confident in my ability to produce *correct* lojban, and so feel a bit of an imposter. Thus: I lurk.

It's a problem I've had both in learning Lojban and German. Learning to produce (write/speak) the language is a completely different skillset than learning to understand it, and requires a lot of feedback and corrections. Neither of the mailing lists are the place for that sort of content, nor a particularly good medium. Were I to contribute content in lojban for poems/newsletters it would place a significant editing burden on somebody, as I'm simply not up to that level of fluency yet on the creation side.

(Solving this problem seems non-trivial. I've considered doing some software development to create a better workflow for, say, posting a blog in the language you're learning and easily allowing others to comment/correct specific parts, but in order to be valuable you need the community of fluent speakers to dedicate time to making corrections/comments reliably, and I'm not sure if Lojban has the critical mass to make it worth developing.)

I appreciate the content! It's wonderful! Were there a "upvote" button on email I would utilize it, but I agree with Timothy Lawrence that it's an email/mailing-list etiquette issue. More content to learn from is *always* appreciated though, for the record! :-)

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