Re: "lojbab"

[And Rosta <a.rosta@UCLAN.AC.UK>]

> The real explanation is that when I called and left messages for Athelstan,
> fellow Lojban worker, his roommates recorded the messages as from
> "Lojban Bob" to tell them apart from the other "Bobs" that left messages.
> This was shortened quickly to "Lojbob" and of course Lojbanized to "lojbab".
> So many people called me by that name since Athelstan was the primary
 recruiter
> of new people in those days, that the nickname stuck.

To non-North Americans, of course, your name rhymes with
"cab" rather than with "cob", and had it been us who had nicknamed
you you would have become "Lojbob".