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Lojbab: > At 12:33 PM 12/24/02 +1100, Nick Nicholas wrote: > >So I want the impossible: both formalism and fundamentalism. Yes, I > >do want the impossible. It's either that or schism. pc, Jordan, and > >you have all raised the prospect. If I accede to it by not seeking > >out compromise, I betray the community. I shall not preside over > >schism > > I can agree with virtually everything you've said in the past couple of > days, but the last sentence you stole from my mouth %^) > > > >Nor do I want to thwart Naturalists or those like Lojbab who want > > >to see *a* loglan come to life, regardless of its merits from a > > >formalist perspective. So like you I am very unsure about how to > > >proceed > > > >I can't give either you or Bob everything you want > > But you are! No, I want not only a language that can express what I want to express, but also one where the cost of expressing it (measured in longwindedness) does not outweigh the benefit (measured in terms of how closely what I say matches what I mean). And I don't want to wait 50 years for it. --And.