From jkominek@miranda.org Tue Oct 16 09:50:29 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-members); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:50:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from miranda.org ([216.93.242.2]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Ihpcg-0006zz-JD for llg-members@lojban.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:50:29 -0700 Received: (qmail 28314 invoked by uid 534); 16 Oct 2007 10:50:24 -0600 Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:50:24 -0600 From: Jay F Kominek To: llg-members@lojban.org Subject: [llg-members] Re: LLG AGM 2007: The Most Common Word In The Language Message-ID: <20071016165024.GX22996@miranda.org> References: <4714EA1F.7030303@lojban.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4714EA1F.7030303@lojban.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 422 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jkominek@miranda.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-members@lojban.org X-list: llg-members On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:43:11PM -0400, Bob LeChevalier wrote: > >Given that you appreciate my participation, consider the harmful > >effect of turning off new Eppcotts. The kind of people who are willing > >to ignore BPFK but for whom gadri is a dealbreaker. > > I don't wish to turn off *any* potential Lojbanist, but your argument is > a non-starter. ANY feature could be a "dealbreaker" for a potential > Lojbanist, no matter how common that feature comes up in usage. You are > talking about aesthetics, especially when referring to new people who > don't have a sense of the history of how we got to where we are. Quite, we've seen everything from attitudinals to the base of the numbers be "dealbreakers" for people. -- Jay Kominek