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...just fundamentalism. There are no revisionsists, just revisionism.Factions are cool; but factions are fluid. I'm allowed to be fundie in most things, and revisionist in a couple. I'm also allowed to lose at the hands at other, more consistent fundies, and curse them all the way down. Much though I'm fuming at Jordan right now, we *need* Jordan, because we need fundies. And I fully admit that on this one issue, I am being revisionist, not fundie. I'm trying to be revisionist lite, but yes, I am being revisionist.
Still willing to compromise, though. For example: Give me a collective lu'oi, and you can keep your lojbanmass loi. That kind of thing.
Don't expect of me consistency, And. It is to the good of Lojban that there be fundamentalism. Not that I or anyone else hold a consistently fundie viewpoint on everything. These are guidelines, and this is politics, and we have to wheeler-deal.
They don't call me weasel for nothing. :-)I wanted to flame Bob's response to you, mainly because I flame everything Bob says by reflex :-) , and I don't like him saying "no factionalism", that's just silly. But thinking of it, I can't really flame him. Factions are fine, because there are conflicting aims for the language, which need to be acknowledged, and I reject any attempt to squelch that. But fluid membership in factions, and the ability to compromise, they're better. There is no fundamentalism per se either. Just votes to keep or change, on particular issues. (Another of Bob's insights.)
I can't flame him, but I do believe my sometime ally and sometime adversary in Preston to be capable of compromise, even if not fluidity. So lay off him. :-)
------------------=================================--------------------Dr Nick Nicholas; University of Melbourne, http://www.opoudjis.net nickn@hidden.email Dept. of French & Italian Studies
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