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On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Bob LeChevalier wrote: > At 01:21 PM 9/12/03 +0100, you wrote: > >Lojbab: > > > Well, if the byfy ever gets around to doing its job, rather than > > > redesigning the language, we can consider it. Choosing clearer words to > > > define the status quo language is reasonable. (This is my brief answer to > > > And's byfy question re conservatives, BTW - I'm simply not that interested > > > in considering much less discussing what I'm willing to change in the > > > language design until I see some sign that the byfy is working to define > > > the bulk of the language according to the status quo.) > > > >None of those people eager for the BF to define the bulk of the language > >according to the status quo are doing any of the work. > > Correct. But that is the byfy charter. People seemed to have taken on > shepherding and presumed that their primary job was to lead discussions > about changes to what has not yet been sufficiently designed. Are your remarks confined to what is (or is not) going on at the BF forum proper, or do they extend to the gadri work which Dr. Rosta and Jorge are doing here and on the wiki, which has not yet been submitted for the BF's consideration? Concerning the BF proper: I would prefer you lead through example, by signing up as a shepherd of something and doing model work for us to emulate, rather than pure discussion aimed at a largely slumbering audience. -- Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.