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[76.76.236.67]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s10sm10034204vdj.1.2011.12.16.11.48.42 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:48:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EEBA098.3040209@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:48:40 -0600 From: vitci'i User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110921 Thunderbird/3.1.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Mini-rant: gismu place consistency References: <20111216191725.GC22027@stodi.digitalkingdom.org> <4EEB9A44.3000403@gmail.com> <20111216192540.GF22027@stodi.digitalkingdom.org> <4EEB9F63.5020302@gmail.com> <20111216194617.GI22027@stodi.digitalkingdom.org> In-Reply-To: <20111216194617.GI22027@stodi.digitalkingdom.org> X-Original-Sender: celestialcognition@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of celestialcognition@gmail.com designates 209.85.220.170 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=celestialcognition@gmail.com; dkim=pass (test mode) header.i=@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 1004133512417 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Spam_score: -0.7 X-Spam_score_int: -6 X-Spam_bar: / On 12/16/2011 01:46 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 01:43:31PM -0600, vitci'i wrote: >> On 12/16/2011 01:25 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote: >>> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 01:21:40PM -0600, vitci'i wrote: >>>> On 12/16/2011 01:17 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote: >>>>> >>>>> If I had it to do over again, every gismu with an agent place >>>>> would have it as the first place. Every gismu with an >>>>> audience or second agent of any type would have it as the >>>>> second place. There would probably be several other >>>>> regularities as well. >>>>> >>>>> I've been saying {manci} and {melbi} to my babies *a lot*, and >>>>> I *still* have trouble remembering that it's {do melbi mi} and >>>>> {mi manci do}. GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. >>>> >>>> Perhaps there should be a central repository of things we'd >>>> like to fix when the next major version of lojban occurs. >>>> (There almost certainly will be one eventually if the language >>>> lasts long enough. Maybe it'll be in ten years, maybe a >>>> hundred, but it *will* need a major update *eventually*.) >>> >>> I'm really hoping to avoid that. But I think there's at least >>> one page on the wiki; search for loccan maybe? >> >> Really? You want -tel- to still belong to {stela} instead of {te} >> in the year 2200? When we finally clone a velociraptor, do you >> want to have to ask {na'e gledji cinse fi ma lo xadni} because we >> don't have a gismu for biological sex? When the Sun burns out and >> you're visiting your grandkids-xiso'i in Andromeda, do you still >> want *two different short rafsi* allocated to *Antarctica*? > > LOL. > > All those things can be fixed incrementally, was my point. I'm not convinced that *all* bugs can be fixed by minor updates, but okay. In that case, perhaps there should exist some sort of bug tracker for Lojban. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en.