From sbelknap@UIC.EDU Wed Dec 04 18:06:11 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_0); 5 Dec 2002 02:06:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 19291 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2002 02:06:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 5 Dec 2002 02:06:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 Dec 2002 02:06:11 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 18JlP1-0007M8-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 18:06:11 -0800 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18JlOw-0007Lp-00; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 18:06:06 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 04 Dec 2002 18:06:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from larch.cc.uic.edu ([128.248.155.164]) by digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.05) id 18JlOr-0007Lg-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 18:06:01 -0800 Received: (qmail 27704 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2002 02:05:59 -0000 Received: from webmail.cc.uic.edu (HELO webmail.uic.edu) (128.248.121.50) by larch.cc.uic.edu with SMTP; 5 Dec 2002 02:05:59 -0000 X-WebMail-UserID: sbelknap@uic.edu Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 20:05:54 -0600 To: , , a.rosta@lycos.co.uk X-EXP32-SerialNo: 50000146 Subject: [lojban] Re: Loglan Message-ID: <3DF44592@webmail.uic.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: InterChange (Hydra) SMTP v3.62 X-archive-position: 3038 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: sbelknap@uic.edu Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list From: sbelknap Reply-To: sbelknap@uic.edu X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=810567 >===== Original Message From a.rosta@lycos.co.uk ===== >Bob McIvor: >> Most newcomers to TLI have looked at both languages before deciding >> to go with TLI > >I'm curious as to what their reasons were. Do you know? > >(I found Loglan (word lists) shortly before Lojban. I never really made >a conscious choice between them, but Lojban had a lively net community >and Loglan didn't, so I gradually became part of Lojban. I still think >that that's the main substantive criterion for choosing between the >two.) I was also influenced by the relatively greater vitality of the lojban listserv. If there had been approximately equal activity on the Loglan and lojban listservs, I probably would have stuck with Loglan, simply to avoid memorizing a whole new vocabulary. But weeks and months went by on the Loglan list with no activity. There wasn't really any sense of an active community. So I gravitated towards lojban. -Steven