From lojbab@lojban.org Fri May 12 12:53:30 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18460 invoked from network); 12 May 2000 19:53:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 12 May 2000 19:53:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy.cais.net) (205.252.14.63) by mta1 with SMTP; 12 May 2000 19:53:09 -0000 Received: from bob (121.dynamic.cais.com [207.226.56.121]) by stmpy.cais.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA03523 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 15:51:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000512153850.00ad9ee0@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 15:55:19 -0400 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] redherringfication of lojban In-Reply-To: <8fh6oa+dvo1@eGroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 03:07 PM 05/12/2000 +0000, michael helsem wrote: >(from alt.language.artificial:) > >Since the death of James Cooke Brown, inventor >of Loglan, there have been calls for the >reunification of the Loglan and Lojban movements. I think it's a >good idea, and it's also an opportunity to make some changes in >the basic structure of >the language(s) without reducing the advantages. What follows >is a proposal I've formulated to send out to any interested >persons: ... >Finally, neither 'loglan' nor 'lojban' would fit the new word-shape, >so I suggest 'Braunlan,' in > >honor of JCB. > >--Rex F. May rmay@peakpeak.com I have to note that JCB himself rejected any such thing, saying it would not be the same project, though not discouraging Rex from undertaking his own separate project. I doubt that Dr. Brown would have felt honored (this is also not the first logical language effort proposed to be named for him - Jeff Prothero, more known in the conlang community for "planb", had an effort called "braun" that was based on mathematics. There of course is no interest on our part in reopening design issues, especially not in new directions. 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