From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Nov 18 09:47:15 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 18 Nov 2006 09:47:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GlUHF-0003Mm-LC for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 09:46:53 -0800 Received: from sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no ([129.241.210.67]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GlUH6-0003MH-Jz for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 09:46:53 -0800 Received: from hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no [129.241.210.68]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6246394786 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 18:46:29 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 18:46:28 +0100 (CET) From: Arnt Richard Johansen X-X-Sender: arj@hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: zo'o nai sai In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20061118090028.eepvzfk39og4kkgk@webmail.pdx.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed X-NVG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-NVG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: arj@nvg.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 13199 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: arj@nvg.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Theodore Reed wrote: > On 11/18/06, keppel@pdx.edu wrote: >> >> .io cai >> zoi gy. Quit mucking around with the language. I just read that police are >> giving up "ten codes" because they couldn't agree. We need to revere the >> big >> red book, at least in memory of John Cowan. .gy. >> > > What the hell are you talking about? Ten codes? And John Cowan isn't dead. > As a member of the bpfk, I can assure you that the "mucking around" isn't > done. There is no baseline. The language is not complete. There will be a > second edition of the big red book. I presume he is referring to the news item that is commented on in http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003771.html . I may be wrong, but in the context of his expressed dislike of the "la" discussion, he is probably using the proliferation of conflicting code schemes in the different police departments as a metaphor of the (perceived) danger of dialectification of Lojban. -- Arnt Richard Johansen http://arj.nvg.org/ Jeg har nett, men ikke maskin. Litt rart. Kanskje jeg ender opp med å sitte i en krok å sutte på nettverkskabelen. To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.