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LOL [NB I consider it sinful to write "LOL" unless it is literally true.] Pity that what you say has no more force than a mere jest, at least as it pertains to Lojban. > -----Original Message----- > From: Invent Yourself [mailto:xod@hidden.email] > Sent: 03 June 2003 02:02 > To: jboske@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [jboske] F33r the Corpus (was: Digest Number 196) > > > 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! > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > jboske-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > >