Careful, Lojban. Loglan is Lojban's predecessor, and is widely considered to be deprecated, despite some people still trying to use it.
-Aris On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 7:43 PM Jacob Arduino <jacobardu...@gmail.com> wrote: > The Loglan and the Snerds both seem like useful constructions, and not at > all mutually exclusive. I'll be sure to try my hand at both. > > - Jacob Arduino > > On Nov 22, 2018 20:16, "Aris Merchant" <thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com > > > wrote: > > Indeed. Or perhaps "All Agorans are snerds". > > > -Aris > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 5:04 PM Reuben Staley <reuben.sta...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Instead, how about we adopt the following term: > > > > snerd > > > > * American English /snɚd/ > > * British English /snəd/ > > > > (noun) 1. short for "super nerd"; i.e. "People who know Lojban are > snerds" > > > > -- > > Trigon > > > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2018, 17:41 Aris Merchant < > > thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > I propose to conduct an experiment into the nature of the Agoran > > > dialect, and specifically how easy it is to change it. I'm planning to > > > start occasionally sprinkling some Lojban indicators [1] into my > > > emails. They represent expressions like "yay!", ";)", or "IMO", but > > > Lojban has many more of them than English. I will gloss most of them, > > > and guarantee that I will gloss anything that substantially changes > > > the meaning of a sentence. This isn't an attempt to do an experiment > > > from the perspective of rules or formal actions (I don't expect to do > > > anything that causes a CFJ). Instead, I'm just going to start using > > > some useful expressions and see if any of them become part of standard > > > Agoran. Of course, I would encourage other interested parties to try > > > doing the same thing. Does anyone have any objections to this > > > proposal? > > > > > > [1] > > > > > https://lojban.org/publications/cll/cll_v1.1_xhtml-chapter-chunks/chapter-attitudinals.html > > > > > > -Aris > > > >
