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On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Nick Nicholas wrote: > We can learn and change -- witness the ka...ce'u sea-change.... Sorry, but for every ka-ce'u, there's a six Cowans re-asserting the factivity of djuno. I thought that was shot down good and proper, but can I really be sure without double-checking the archives??? At this rate it will be 40 more years until the dust settles. But the point was: what credence can we give the corpus, written by novices relative to the sages who are bumbling over the Lojban form of "the"? The disturbing implication of AndR's practically irrefutable assessment is that we may have to drift the language away from the corpus, judging it to actually be *in error*, written by people who didn't have enough of a clue wtf they were saying -- this includes all present company. Maybe this means I'm signing up for your fundamentalist dialect, Nick. -- // if (!terrorist) // ignore (); // else collect_data ();