From arosta@uclan.ac.uk Wed Mar 28 04:07:48 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: arosta@uclan.ac.uk X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 28 Mar 2001 12:07:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 82019 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2001 12:07:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 28 Mar 2001 12:07:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO com1.uclan.ac.uk) (193.61.255.3) by mta3 with SMTP; 28 Mar 2001 13:08:51 -0000 Received: from gwise-gw1.uclan.ac.uk by com1.uclan.ac.uk with SMTP (Mailer); Wed, 28 Mar 2001 12:49:55 +0100 Received: from DI1-Message_Server by gwise-gw1.uclan.ac.uk with Novell_GroupWise; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 13:08:16 +0100 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5.2 Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 13:07:42 +0100 To: lojban Subject: Re: [lojban] lojban audial recognition etc. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline From: And Rosta pc: #Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de writes: #> BTW, IMHO one reason for new Lojban-interested people getting bored off = and #> leaving again might be long philosophical threads of=20 #> the DJUNO/KRICI kind=20 [...] #> Shouldn't we better leave the ivory tower and turn toward people instead= of #> "linguistic" specialties as sort of an oblivious and eccentric navel gaz= ing? #=20 #Yes, but... those "ivory tower discussions" get started precisely because= =20 #people have practical problems about how to say bip or what they have=20 #actually said when they say boo.=20 [...] #The content of the discussion may get technical or polyglot or abstract, b= ut=20 #the motivation is always ultimately practical. I am interested in Lojban only for the scope it affords for ivory-tower nav= el gazing.=20 I've always been in favour of list-splitting.=20 Unless I am hallucinating this memory, the subject-line tag solution has be= en=20 tried, but the tags were based on gismu and (therefore?) most people couldn= 't=20 remember them. --And.