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Lojbab: > At 08:33 PM 6/1/03 +0100, And Rosta wrote: > > > But the naturalism/formalism issue is > > > related to that: it isn't orthogonal (since naturalism is inherently > > > anti-baseline, > > > >I don't know about that. Lojbab as a conservative naturalist seemed > >to see the baseline as a common jumping-off point for naturalistic > >evolution > > Yes. BUT I expected that there would be 5 years of baseline compliance > before there would be any jumping off, and the jumping off would take place > by Lojbanists speaking Lojban, not talking about it in English > > Everything I've ever said negative about Jorge's (and others') deviations > from the baseline would have to be withdrawn, if they occurred after 5 > years of everyone's best efforts at baseline compliance Yes -- my "conservative naturalist" was a shorthand for this more expanded description. To a formalist, a language that evolved away from the baseline would become a different & much less valuable language. To preempt argument, I hasten to add that although I am committed to bequeathing future Lojbanists as good a language as possible, I am now fully resigned to it going in the direction that you-joi-Nick have been leading it. --And.