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On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, And Rosta wrote: > Still, you, having, as BF-tsar, to serve the two gods of Conservatism > and Formalism, suffer most from the effects of conservatism. E.g. the > gadri system is a pile of incoherent shite, it could be fixed easily by > redoing it from scratch, but no, the people who have half learnt the > pile of incoherent shite & believe they have learnt something worth > knowing insist that the fix be done by bodging -- with the utmost > difficulty & agony -- the pile of incoherent shite into something less > incoherent. But do these people do the hard work themselves? Conservatism is a position which would make sense if there existed a corpus. By corpus I mean a substantial amount of content -- written or spoken -- by reasonably fluent people. All we have is a few hundred K of scratchings at the preschool level. Such jibber jabber is unworthy of circumscribing anyone's explorations. It is an act of denial to respect a corpus written by people who didn't understand their word for "the". > The way I have come to see things, the vast majority of Lojbanists want > a language that is as stable as possible but logically sound (even > though they leave it to others to ensure that it is logically sound, and > will blithely speak a logically unsound language so long as they don't > realize they're doing so). Lojban will be the language these people > want. There is no practical means of changing this, and no decent moral > justification for denying these people the language they want. Logically sound? I'll settle for a language in which we can agree how to ask for a doctor. -- .o'i mu xagji sofybakni cu zvati le purdi [Caution!] There are five hungry Soviet cows in the garden!