<p><pre><code>  &#62; &#62; With time, assuming the language is used by a significant
  &#62; &#62; number of people, it will acquire such a history.
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  &#62; This will of course never happen.
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"Man flying?  Impossible!"  "A man walking on the moon?  Preposterous!"  "Slavery/segregation is the natural state of man and will never change."  "The Third Reich will last a thousand years."  "The Soviet Union will never collapse in our lifetime."<p>History is full of surprises.<p>Sure, today Lojban is a fringe language with a few thousand speakers, tops.  And there's no indication of any kind of widespread movement to adopt it.  But that could change with time.  The language is really in its infancy.<p>Of course, it's not likely it'll ever be as popular as any of the major natural languages are today, but I wouldn't rule out the possibility of hundreds of thousands or even millions of people speaking it (or a future offspring of it) one day.