From lojbab@lojban.org Sat Jul 21 12:05:15 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 21 Jul 2001 19:05:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 92977 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2001 19:05:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 21 Jul 2001 19:05:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-3.cais.net) (205.252.14.73) by mta3 with SMTP; 21 Jul 2001 19:05:07 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (1.dynamic.cais.com [207.226.56.1]) by stmpy-3.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f6LJ56A94029 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 15:05:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010721150701.00c4d9f0@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 15:08:43 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] On a number of parts of threads and single threads disguised as several In-Reply-To: <20010720214045.C20749@digitalkingdom.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010720210849.00cdc810@127.0.0.1> <103.6254fd4.28879e8b@aol.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010720210849.00cdc810@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 09:40 PM 07/20/2001 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > b) turning off new people who don't generally understand the esoteric > > nature of the discussion (and sometimes convincing them that the language > > isn't really "done" and hence ready for someone to learn). > > >I agree. > > >The one (1) person in my lojban classes that tried reading the list left >almost instantly for this reason. I have had about 6 students so far. Left the list, or your classes, or both? If they left the list, then it merely means that we don't have a list that reaches the entire community. If they gave up on the language, then the technicalities are driving people away. 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