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[216.109.114.79]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k3si1351194qcn.2.2014.05.22.07.26.42 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 22 May 2014 07:26:43 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of kali9putra@yahoo.com designates 216.109.114.79 as permitted sender) client-ip=216.109.114.79; Received: from [66.196.81.160] by nm1.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 May 2014 14:26:42 -0000 Received: from [66.196.81.132] by tm6.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 May 2014 14:26:42 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1008.access.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 May 2014 14:26:42 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 667697.58163.bm@omp1008.access.mail.bf1.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 85165 invoked by uid 60001); 22 May 2014 14:26:41 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: oAQTL1IVM1nyXsR2.RVlOiYWNGaO0TuuIkMGstmO5yXaqEZ 31GvNCytZ4UTDXTQfdxUNm5aLn5WtDsd6KisCeo4XqwTprrI9qZfNhvksztz JKvvOT5lqD3K_AP6xeV4OieGYWchiu9CEIWhY6bLaR_reiLjLCFPYrBjJnau 2.CQPC8wWggkasSInwzogEubn4m0zJBfTTDbaZvF8kMMXBdANbQBY6ls64tZ a7T3HS1O5UxP.TvhqQBhhjxSct4c6NYfzaYpX0ytkykIM67edGiy4QM9uZLC hNBsk7mmSzQ30aI2Uo13oMAi9AR19fXOAMuwKmuRw4d7Hr38_bJVchoVhMbs A37qvM6vdPoVxWcZrCLb89R2RydyYQcgKAbst44QeVgrcxC4FRoHr5i_AuU. 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Everybody take a word and spend a few minutes, then the whole thing will be= done and we can get on with changing everything. =A0[sarcasm] On Thursday, May 22, 2014 7:37 AM, "Bob LeChevalier, President and Founder = - LLG" wrote: =20 On 5/20/2014 5:49 PM, 'John E Clifford' via lojban wrote: > This discussion reminds me of the obscurity or paradoxicality of the > whole baseline project. The obscurity is:What is it to do?=A0 The paradox > comes from the usual answer: to determine the present state of the > language.=A0 But, of course, the present state of the language is -- by > definition -- just that specified in CLL (after typos are corrected, > discovered inaccurate statements clarified, and the definitive version > of xorlo added).=A0 So, where is the research? I'm not sure "research" is needed, per se.=A0 If it is, then it consists of= : Finding the typos, discovering the inaccurate statements, and figuring=20 out how to clarify them in ways that don't muddy some other point, and=20 coming up with a definitive statement of xorlo (which despite being=20 supposedly well-defined, keeps coming up as a topic of highly technical=20 questions). Others might call this "simple editorial work". > The escape from the > paradox is to say that what is sought is a report on what is currently > accepted as Lojban (by whom is left somewhat open -- perhaps the > committee or Robin?).=A0 But this goes against the whole point, since it > involves a constantly shifting target and standard: what goes > uncriticized nowadays was once rejected or at least suspected, so both > the language as used and the tastes of the referees are in flux (and not > guaranteed in agreement if there is more than one). Not guaranteed, which is why we did not require unanimity in voting. > While no changes > can be suggested, let alone approved, until the baseline is done, > countless changes might be (and surely have been) made since the process > began, almost all without discussion or approval by any body. And all of them are unofficial, though a few might sneak in if they are=20 close to consistent with the wording so far, or if they apply to byfy=20 sections as yet unanalyzed. > So, in > what sense is what is to be described the Lojban(s since some changes > have gone equally in several directions)? If several directions, then one must be chosen.=A0 Otherwise, we have=20 schism, which most find unacceptable. > In retrospect, it might have > been better to allow changes through a careful process from the get-go, > building up a cumulative description as we went along. That is what was happening up until 1997 or so.=A0 But we couldn't produce= =20 a dictionary or even a good selma'o catalog, because we couldn't come up=20 with dictionary-quality definitions of the cmavo.=A0 While I worked on the= =20 gismu/lujvo portion of the dictionary, Cowan started to work on the=20 selma'o catalog which in turn would hopefully lead to the cmavo=20 definitions.=A0 He started with my tense and negation papers, which each=20 covered a small number of selma'o, and went on from there=A0 From=20 1994-1997 he wrote corresponding essays on all the chunks of the=20 language, incidentally generating 20-odd formal change proposals to the=20 grammar to respond to ambiguities and limitations (a couple of these=20 were changes actually proposed by others, but codified by Cowan).=A0 Those= =20 change proposals, as they were accepted/approved by the community of=20 Lojban-List readers, were incorporated into the formal YACC grammar as=20 well as into his textual essays.=A0 Then the essays were collected into=20 CLL, with a cross-indexing "selma'o catalog" added as the last chapter. But this still did not lead to definitions of each cmavo suitable for a=20 dictionary.=A0 And a couple of years after CLL was published, once the=20 community of users who had studied it grew to critical mass, people=20 started finding typos and undefined holes in what was described.=A0 But no= =20 one followed Cowan's demonstrated procedures for formally proposing=20 changes, and no one wrote cmavo definitions.=A0 When I realized we had=20 passed 5 years of so-called baseline without even finalizing the cmavo=20 definitions, I got the Board (with membership approval) to pass the buck=20 to the BPFK.=A0 It's been more than 10 years now, I think. Under Nick, the BPFK got the job partly done, but there was too much=20 pressure to finalize certain things before all the other sections were=20 done, and no one volunteered to shepherd the boring parts of the=20 language, which never did get done.=A0 Robin moved things much further=20 along, but still couldn't get people to tackle the most boring stuff.=20 We seem to be lacking the compulsive completists that Cowan, Nora,=20 Athelstan, Nick and myself were (and I should probably include you among=20 those, since in many ways this whole project - of completely codifying=20 the language - got started with your attempt to codify all of the Loglan=20 cmavo and selma'o on a set of pages that still graces my historical files). > There would then > at least have been some control (beyond the annoying scolding that we > can't suggest that yet, People can suggest anything they want, but they cannot be formally=20 decided without a formal change proposal which of necessity has to=20 include a statement of what the status quo is, which in turn requires=20 the status quo specification to be complete. (People have made reference to software development in this discussion,=20 and the concept I am describing is taken from procedures that were=20 standard in most parts of the industry when I was working in it, and so=20 far as I know are still standard, albeit more automated.) > when the end of yet was clearly nowhere in sight The end has been in sight for a long time.=A0 The will to cover the=20 intervening distance hasn't been there since Cowan and I stopped leading=20 the effort.=A0 It seems to take a completist attitude. I had the rather extreme ideal of Sir James Murray of OED fame, and a=20 couple of books on lexicography to give me guidance, but I simply=20 couldn't do that kind of job while doing all the rest of the Lojban,=20 jobs I was trying to do, especially while also parenting two young kids=20 (something Robin has similar discovered %^).=A0 Cowan did a splendid job=20 on CLL but has seemed to suffer burnout since then.=A0 Lots of others have= =20 taken up the slack, but no one seems to have the drive to get it all done. > Lojbab has presented a different scenario, in effect.=A0 CLL was not a > specification, he says, and what the baseline is is a specification (it > is not perfectly clear what that all means in the light of several -- > unfortunately non-equivalent -- grammars). The baseline requires a specification defining ALL of the cmavo, because=20 that is what was still missing in 1997.=A0 The YACC grammar as published=20 in the appendix to CLL remains the standard for resolving any=20 non-equivalencies. >That is, apparently, that the > baseline is to fill out -- with examples and other commentary -- all the > details that CLL merely sketched in broad strokes (not a description > that applies to CLL very handily). And in particular, to come up with dictionary-quality cmavo definitions,=20 so that we can combine cmavo and gismu and lujvo definitions along with=20 a formal grammar into a well-defined set of what people understood=20 originally as the "baseline" of words and grammar (with any many=20 questions about ambiguities resolved as possible). > that is, the baseline project is to > find out what CLL meant -- or, rather, has come to mean -- to people who > claim to using Lojban. Perhaps, but more limited than that.=A0 Dictionary-quality definitions=20 (that are "definitive" %^) is the key.=A0 The BPFK sections were the=20 method of writing those definitive definitions. > The problem is one of control again: if CLL was > not specific, then there are a range of possible meanings and how are we > to decide which one is right? That was the job of the BPFK, and the "how" was basically "whatever was=20 needed to achieve consensus". > That is, establishing the baseline is > already doing what the baseline was to serve as basis for: establishing > changes in the language.=A0 And so the circle goes on. The most we can > actually do is report on what users actually do (somehow skipping > mistakes of various sorts) and come up with a description of a=A0 Lojban > (or several), but not of Lojban. A single "Standard" Lojban, whether anyone actually bothered to follow=20 that standard. (It was envisioned that the BPFK would evolve into a=20 group that would certify the degree of compliance with the standard of=20 submitted works) > Until someone declares that one of the > things come up with is the real thing, which will ot be a unanimous > decision, of course, It must be a consensus of whoever constitutes the BPFK at the time.=20 (Consensus being defined so as to not allow individual vetoes). > since it will not be either CLL Lojban (which it > turns out did not exist as such) or a new version arrived at in an > approved way. I think it did and does exist, because people are capable of deciding=20 whether something is consistent with CLL for the most part.=A0 We know=20 what things people are proposing as "changes" to CLL, such as xorlo, and=20 which are "corrections" and "clarifications". > All that being the case, some body, consisting of people who actually do > the work, needs to do something along the lines laid out over the > decades -- or along some other effective lines.=A0 Or we can go on as a > squabbling group, boasting about a language we don't have, with > properties what we do have doesn't have, recruiting (under somewhat > false pretences) ever more people who deviate ever further from a > nonexistent norm.=A0 Well, that is a language, after all, though not quit= e > what anyone seems to have in mind. The standard in most lay people's minds is that a language isn't really=20 a language until it has a dictionary (and for most that means a physical=20 book, because until we commit to fixed print, it remains a nebulosity).=20 =A0 We never produced one; jbovlaste is a data base, and not a dictionary.= =20 =A0 And the baseline was originally defined as a dictionary and a grammar= =20 (CLL can fulfill the latter, even if it is not a "specification" sufficient to produce dictionary definitions of cmavo). lojbab --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= lojban" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an e= mail to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban. 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Nice to know that the project, despite all that ha= s been said about it, is just writing adequate definitions for cmavo -- exc= luding, for now, I suppose, all the experimental ones, but keeping all the = established highly superfluous ones (cultural neutrality does NOT require t= hat we can do anything any language can do) and not changing the grammar to= get rid of the redundant ones.  The joker here seems to be the notion= of an adequate definition, since all these words have definitions and even= some commentary, not to mention reams of discussion if there is anything c= ontroversial about them.  Surely the boring one just need a write-up a= nd the non-boring ones a summary.
Everybody take a word and spend a few minute= s, then the whole thing will be done and we can get on with changing everyt= hing.  [sarcasm]

On Thursday, May 22, 2014 7:37 AM, "Bob LeChevalie= r, President and Founder - LLG" <lojbab@lojban.org> wrote:


On 5/20/2014 5:49 PM, 'Jo= hn E Clifford' via lojban wrote:
> This discussion reminds me of the = obscurity or paradoxicality of the
> whole baseline project. The obsc= urity is:What is it to do?  The paradox
> comes from the usual answer= : to determine the present state of the
> language.  But, of cou= rse, the present state of the language is -- by
> definition -- just = that specified in CLL (after typos are corrected,
> discovered inaccu= rate statements clarified, and the definitive version
> of xorlo adde= d).  So, where is the research?

I'm not sure "research" is need= ed, per se.  If it is, then it consists of:
Finding the typos, disc= overing the inaccurate statements, and figuring
out how to clarify them= in ways that don't muddy some other point, and
coming up with a defini= tive statement of xorlo (which despite being
supposedly well-defined, k= eeps coming up as a topic of highly technical
questions).

Others= might call this "simple editorial work".

> The escape from the> paradox is to say that what is sought is a report on what is currently
> accepted as Lojban (by whom is left somewhat open -- per= haps the
> committee or Robin?).  But this goes against the whol= e point, since it
> involves a constantly shifting target and standar= d: what goes
> uncriticized nowadays was once rejected or at least su= spected, so both
> the language as used and the tastes of the referee= s are in flux (and not
> guaranteed in agreement if there is more tha= n one).

Not guaranteed, which is why we did not require unanimity in= voting.

> While no changes
> can be suggested, let alone a= pproved, until the baseline is done,
> countless changes might be (an= d surely have been) made since the process
> began, almost all withou= t discussion or approval by any body.

And all of them are unofficial= , though a few might sneak in if they are
close to consistent with the = wording so far, or if they apply to byfy
sections as yet unanalyzed.

> So, in
> what sense is what is to be describ= ed the Lojban(s since some changes
> have gone equally in several dir= ections)?

If several directions, then one must be chosen.  Othe= rwise, we have
schism, which most find unacceptable.

> In ret= rospect, it might have
> been better to allow changes through a caref= ul process from the get-go,
> building up a cumulative description as= we went along.

That is what was happening up until 1997 or so. = ; But we couldn't produce
a dictionary or even a good selma'o catalog, = because we couldn't come up
with dictionary-quality definitions of the = cmavo.  While I worked on the
gismu/lujvo portion of the dictionar= y, Cowan started to work on the
selma'o catalog which in turn would hop= efully lead to the cmavo
definitions.  He started with my tense an= d negation papers, which each
covered a small number of selma'o, and went on from there  From
1994-1997 he wrote corresponding ess= ays on all the chunks of the
language, incidentally generating 20-odd f= ormal change proposals to the
grammar to respond to ambiguities and lim= itations (a couple of these
were changes actually proposed by others, b= ut codified by Cowan).  Those
change proposals, as they were accep= ted/approved by the community of
Lojban-List readers, were incorporated= into the formal YACC grammar as
well as into his textual essays. = Then the essays were collected into
CLL, with a cross-indexing "selma'= o catalog" added as the last chapter.

But this still did not lead to= definitions of each cmavo suitable for a
dictionary.  And a coupl= e of years after CLL was published, once the
community of users who had= studied it grew to critical mass, people
started finding typos and und= efined holes in what was described.  But no
one followed Cowan's demonstrated procedures for formally proposing
changes, and no= one wrote cmavo definitions.  When I realized we had
passed 5 yea= rs of so-called baseline without even finalizing the cmavo
definitions,= I got the Board (with membership approval) to pass the buck
to the BPF= K.  It's been more than 10 years now, I think.

Under Nick, the = BPFK got the job partly done, but there was too much
pressure to finali= ze certain things before all the other sections were
done, and no one v= olunteered to shepherd the boring parts of the
language, which never di= d get done.  Robin moved things much further
along, but still coul= dn't get people to tackle the most boring stuff.
We seem to be lacking = the compulsive completists that Cowan, Nora,
Athelstan, Nick and myself= were (and I should probably include you among
those, since in many way= s this whole project - of completely codifying
the language - got started with your attempt to codify all of the Loglan
cmavo and se= lma'o on a set of pages that still graces my historical files).

>= There would then
> at least have been some control (beyond the annoy= ing scolding that we
> can't suggest that yet,

People can sugg= est anything they want, but they cannot be formally
decided without a f= ormal change proposal which of necessity has to
include a statement of = what the status quo is, which in turn requires
the status quo specifica= tion to be complete.

(People have made reference to software develop= ment in this discussion,
and the concept I am describing is taken from = procedures that were
standard in most parts of the industry when I was = working in it, and so
far as I know are still standard, albeit more aut= omated.)

> when the end of yet was clearly nowhere in sight
The end has been in sight for a long time.  The will to cover the
intervening distance hasn't been there since Cowan and I stopped l= eading
the effort.  It seems to take a completist attitude.
I had the rather extreme ideal of Sir James Murray of OED fame, and a
= couple of books on lexicography to give me guidance, but I simply
could= n't do that kind of job while doing all the rest of the Lojban,
jobs I = was trying to do, especially while also parenting two young kids
(somet= hing Robin has similar discovered %^).  Cowan did a splendid job
o= n CLL but has seemed to suffer burnout since then.  Lots of others hav= e
taken up the slack, but no one seems to have the drive to get it all = done.

> Lojbab has presented a different scenario, in effect.&nbs= p; CLL was not a
> specification, he says, and what the baseline is i= s a specification (it
> is not perfectly clear what that all means in= the light of several --
> unfortunately non-equivalent -- grammars).

The baseline requires a specification defining ALL of th= e cmavo, because
that is what was still missing in 1997.  The YACC= grammar as published
in the appendix to CLL remains the standard for r= esolving any
non-equivalencies.

>That is, apparently, that th= e
> baseline is to fill out -- with examples and other commentary -- = all the
> details that CLL merely sketched in broad strokes (not a de= scription
> that applies to CLL very handily).

And in particul= ar, to come up with dictionary-quality cmavo definitions,
so that we ca= n combine cmavo and gismu and lujvo definitions along with
a formal gra= mmar into a well-defined set of what people understood
originally as th= e "baseline" of words and grammar (with any many
questions about ambigu= ities resolved as possible).

> that is, the baseline project is t= o
> find out what CLL meant -- or, rather, has come to mean -- to people who
> claim to using Lojban.

Perhaps, but more limi= ted than that.  Dictionary-quality definitions
(that are "definiti= ve" %^) is the key.  The BPFK sections were the
method of writing = those definitive definitions.

> The problem is one of control aga= in: if CLL was
> not specific, then there are a range of possible mea= nings and how are we
> to decide which one is right?

That was = the job of the BPFK, and the "how" was basically "whatever was
needed t= o achieve consensus".

> That is, establishing the baseline is
= > already doing what the baseline was to serve as basis for: establishin= g
> changes in the language.  And so the circle goes on. The mos= t we can
> actually do is report on what users actually do (somehow s= kipping
> mistakes of various sorts) and come up with a description o= f a  Lojban
> (or several), but not of Lojban.

A single "Standard" Lojban, whether anyone actually bothered to follow
t= hat standard. (It was envisioned that the BPFK would evolve into a
grou= p that would certify the degree of compliance with the standard of
subm= itted works)

> Until someone declares that one of the
> thi= ngs come up with is the real thing, which will ot be a unanimous
> de= cision, of course,

It must be a consensus of whoever constitutes the= BPFK at the time.
(Consensus being defined so as to not allow individu= al vetoes).

> since it will not be either CLL Lojban (which it> turns out did not exist as such) or a new version arrived at in an> approved way.

I think it did and does exist, because people ar= e capable of deciding
whether something is consistent with CLL for the = most part.  We know
what things people are proposing as "changes" = to CLL, such as xorlo, and
which are "corrections" and "clarifications".

> All that being the case, some body, consisti= ng of people who actually do
> the work, needs to do something along = the lines laid out over the
> decades -- or along some other effectiv= e lines.  Or we can go on as a
> squabbling group, boasting abou= t a language we don't have, with
> properties what we do have doesn't= have, recruiting (under somewhat
> false pretences) ever more people= who deviate ever further from a
> nonexistent norm.  Well, that= is a language, after all, though not quite
> what anyone seems to ha= ve in mind.

The standard in most lay people's minds is that a langua= ge isn't really
a language until it has a dictionary (and for most that= means a physical
book, because until we commit to fixed print, it rema= ins a nebulosity).
  We never produced one; jbovlaste is a data ba= se, and not a dictionary.
  And the baseline was originally defined as a dictionary and a grammar
(CLL can fulfill the latter, eve= n if it is not a
"specification" sufficient to produce dictionary defini= tions of cmavo).

lojbab

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