From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Sat Jul 21 13:48:12 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 21 Jul 2001 20:48:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 81681 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2001 20:47:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 21 Jul 2001 20:47:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta1 with SMTP; 21 Jul 2001 20:47:53 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.31 #1 (Debian)) id 15O3fE-0003bf-00 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 13:47:52 -0700 Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 13:47:52 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] On a number of parts of threads and single threads disguised as several Message-ID: <20010721134752.H20749@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com 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> <4.3.2.7.2.20010721150701.00c4d9f0@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010721150701.00c4d9f0@127.0.0.1> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i From: Robin Lee Powell On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 03:08:43PM -0400, Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote: > 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. Oh, sorry, should have specified. They left the list. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/