[lojban] Re: Why does CLLv1.1 retain so many errors from CLLv1.0? (WAS: Re: CLLv1.1 goes out on Monday, 12 Oct 2015)

[Gleki Arxokuna <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com>]

Em sábado, 28 de março de 2020 08:52:27 UTC+3, scope845hlang343jbo@icebubble.org  escreveu:
> I was just comparing the new edition of the official Lojban Reference
> Grammar (CLL v1.1) with my annotated(/corrected) bound copy of the
> book... and I find myself rather disappointed.  A few of the errors in
> v1.0 were corrected, but most of the errors, omissions, ambiguities, and
> confusing passages in v1.0 were retained in v1.1.  I had hoped that
> these errors would be caught, and that the new edition of the CLL would
> be clear, correct, and intelligible.
> 
> Here's just one example off the top of my head: In section 10.4, both
> CLLv1.0 and v1.1 state that a temporal tense is expressed before a
> spatial tense.  But the formal grammar (EBNF Rule 972, yacc Rule 979)
> allows them to occur in either order.  The text is still wrong.  And
> there are many other examples.
> 
> Could anyone tell me why all these problems weren't corrected in CLL
> v1.1?

Because those who publish the CLL are not superbeings? Hint: continue unofficially at https://lojban.pw in a hope that the officials catch up.

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