From thinkit8@lycos.com Tue Nov 13 21:53:32 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: thinkit8@lycos.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 14 Nov 2001 05:53:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 96886 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2001 05:53:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m10.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 14 Nov 2001 05:53:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n25.groups.yahoo.com) (216.115.96.75) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Nov 2001 05:53:31 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: thinkit8@lycos.com Received: from [10.1.2.56] by n25.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 Nov 2001 05:53:09 -0000 Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 05:53:27 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: a goodbye of sorts Message-ID: <9st0sn+erpi@eGroups.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 758 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 24.5.121.32 From: thinkit8@lycos.com X-Yahoo-Profile: thinkit41 i spent a lot of time trying to learn the gismu so i could enjoy reading. and when i managed to get through whole parapgraphs of Alice...it was wonderful! but eventually i got tired of dealing with the irregularities rampant in the language. irregularities are common in all natural languages, but one that is supposedly "designed" should have far fewer than lojban has. look at the jbosnu group...nobody posts there now. it seems people enjoy talking about the language, but not in it. lojban is a second generation language, evolved from loglan. if history repeats and a new language sprouts from lojban, i'd like to be involved in it. i intend to get started on a binary-encoded language, and lojban's design will help greatly with it.