From cowan@ccil.org Sun Oct 14 10:12:46 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-members); Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:12:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.ccil.org ([192.190.237.11]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Ih718-0000Mh-Aa for llg-members@lojban.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:12:45 -0700 Received: from cowan by earth.ccil.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Ih711-0001zo-KS for llg-members@lojban.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:12:35 -0400 Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:12:35 -0400 To: llg-members@lojban.org Subject: [llg-members] Re: LLG AGM 2007: New Business Message-ID: <20071014171235.GB6417@mercury.ccil.org> References: <470E9480.3000307@lojban.org> <20071012022955.GG13890@digitalkingdom.org> <470F688A.2050209@lojban.org> <20071012172307.GD31644@digitalkingdom.org> <470FD7BB.2030202@lojban.org> <925d17560710121543u7022f8d2n56d06f14ac6f8e7d@mail.gmail.com> <471099AA.4070805@gmail.com> <20071013235327.GR31644@digitalkingdom.org> <47123DF7.9070802@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47123DF7.9070802@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: John Cowan X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 412 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: cowan@ccil.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-members@lojban.org X-list: llg-members And Rosta scripsit: > >I, on the other hand, think it's a very bad idea. The current > >definitions for most of the cmavo are atrocious. > > Everybody's unwillingness to improve the documentation on certain cmavo is > arguably indicative of a lack of will for those cmavo to remain in the > language. Just because I think the definition of "fairy" in the OED is buggy, but can't be arsed to improve it myself, does not mean I wish to see the word ejected from English. Lojban now has a life of its own independent of dictionaries and grammars. -- If you understand, John Cowan things are just as they are; http://www.ccil.org/~cowan if you do not understand, cowan@ccil.org things are just as they are.