From lojbab@lojban.org Sat Nov 24 22:58:41 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 25 Nov 2001 06:58:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 12538 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2001 06:58:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m10.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 25 Nov 2001 06:58:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-1.cais.net) (205.252.14.71) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Nov 2001 06:58:40 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (dynamic120.cl7.cais.net [205.177.20.120]) by stmpy-1.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id fAP6waT84050 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 01:58:36 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20011125015538.00b25ef0@pop.cais.com> X-Sender: vir1036@pop.cais.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 01:58:21 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] presentation of lojban In-Reply-To: <82.139423d5.29318fa0@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 07:04 PM 11/24/01 -0500, pycyn@aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 11/24/2001 11:21:05 AM Central Standard Time, >ragnarok@pobox.com writes: >>But how old was the language at that time? Personally, I would date modern >>Lojban from the loglan/lojban split, which IIRC makes it about 12 years old. >>And the first person to confront Lojbab speaking Lojban was probably not a >>club member, as I don't beleive there was a mailing list or wiki yet. > >She was, of course, insofar as there was a club. and so were the next >half-dozen or so. Well yes, I should not forget Nora. We exchanged our wedding vows in Oct 1987 in 30%/70% Lojban/Loglan hybrid language, and spent our honeymoon in Williamsburg VA attempting to talk to each other with our respective 300 word vocabularies, which overlapped each other only around 30%. lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org