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> I come back from 10d in Jamaica expecting to see hundreds of mails here, > but instead it seems to have fizzled out. Are the solutions of Rosta and > Jorge converging? Or is pc having the predicted effect of derailment? Xorxes & I are in complete agreement. I have to leave it xorxes to engage in discussion with pc, but those discussions seem to be making progress. XS is still the only articulated gadri solution on the table so far, as far as I can tell. I've no idea why all activity on jboske and BF phpbb has ceased. Unfortunately the period when I could have devoted a lot of time to them is coming to an end. I ruefully note that I offered to shepherd anaphora on the BF months ago, but still haven't received approval. The likeliest outcome seems to me to be one of the following: a. The BF will collapse due to disillusionment. (But history shows that Lojban has been surprisingly robust, so this is relatively unlikely.) b. The BF will make slow progress over many years. c. People will come to realize that xorxes is almost always right, and the model for the BF will be that xorxes makes proposals & everybody else checks them for possible problems or refinements. d. The community judges the BF to have failed, and reverts to the earlier status quo, with Lojban evolving in a naturalistic direction, perhaps also with the progressives developing a new dialect & making rapid progress unhampered by conservatism. On the whole, I'm hoping for (c). --And.