Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 00:01:23 -0500
From: lojbab@grebyn.com (Logical Language Group)
Message-Id: <9212100501.AA09905@daily.grebyn.com>
To: nsn@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au
Subject: Espo question for you
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001

Rick Harrison in response to Lars on conlang 2 months ago:
>> Also, it seems to me, the scope of the changes to Esperanto that would
>> be necessary to make it acceptable to some people on this list is so
>> large that it would severly damage backward compatibility: Learners of
>> the reformed Esperanto would find the previous literature about as
>> accesible as modern Americans find raw Chaucer.
>
>That is probably true.  It seems very unlikely that the would-be
>reformers of Esperanto will ever reach a consensus, especially those who
>are outsiders.  Judging by the past couple months' traffic in
>soc.culture.esperanto though, I would say there is a substantial
>movement afoot to restrain the rampant growth of the E-o vocabulary and
>go back to using compounds and affixes to express as many ideas as
>possible.  This is a worthy goal and those Esperantistoj who are working
>toward it should be applauded.

This sounds like E. is going through a le'avla vs. lujvo internal
battle.  Is this the case, are the lujvo people winning as he says, and
is your sense of the wider E. community not-on-net that it follows the
trend Rick states is evident on s.c.e.

Does this teach us any lessons for Lojban?  (I hope so.)  Your
thoughtful opinion on this subject and ramifications posted to Lojban
List (and maybe also conlang), and possibly in JL, would be welcomed.
Examples encouraged assuming you are writing for a
non-Esperanto-knowledgeable audience:  what types of things ARE suitable
for le'avla, and which for lujvo, under the various factions in this
issue.

Feel free to bring others (Mark, etc.) into this discussion/project)

lojbab