From cowan@ccil.org Fri May 14 18:00:38 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 14 May 2004 18:00:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mercury.ccil.org ([192.190.237.100]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA:16) (Exim 4.32) id 1BOnXS-00011I-FV for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 14 May 2004 18:00:30 -0700 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 4.32) id 1BOnbO-0004h8-HW for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 14 May 2004 21:04:34 -0400 Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 21:04:34 -0400 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Archivist: Experimental cmavo space usage? Message-ID: <20040515010434.GJ26335@ccil.org> References: <20040514233600.GF6978@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040514233600.GF6978@chain.digitalkingdom.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: John Cowan X-archive-position: 7860 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: cowan@ccil.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Robin Lee Powell scripsit: > In another mailing list, we are discussing what to do if one wishes to > propose that the BPFK adopt a particular experimental cmavo. > > Do you simply declare the cmavo (which is in experimental cmavo space) > official? Do you need to re-partition experimental space? What? Non-negotiable point: An officially assigned cmavo can't be in experimental space. An obvious fact: We will need to shrink experimental space if we have more than a few cmavo to assign. My opinion: It would be better to shrink experimental space along some natural line of cleavage (e.g. take all xa'V out of it, or all xV'a, or all mVV'V, or something) rather than introducing random holes in it. -- John Cowan www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com 'Tis the Linux rebellion / Let coders take their place, The Linux-nationale / Shall Microsoft outpace, We can write better programs / Our CPUs won't stall, So raise the penguin banner of / The Linux-nationale.