Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 03:22:56 -0500
From: lojbab@grebyn.com (Logical Language Group)
Message-Id: <9212130822.AA19999@daily.grebyn.com>
To: nsn@mullian.ee.Mu.OZ.AU
Subject: Re: Espo question for you
Cc: cowan@snark.thyrsus.com
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Maybe I shouldn;t ask for this, given your posting, but....

You've been doing all that neat work on the lujvo place structures, and seem
to have as good a handle on the process of deciding them as anyone, as well
as firmer opinions than most.

It has occurred to me that we will need something written on the topic for the
dictionary, and indeed you and I discussed this once, when you were rather
more a dikyjvo fan than you seem to be these days.

What I'd like to see, would be a paper along the lines of one of Cowan's papers,
such as the recent tanru one, which sets down some general guidelines (such
as the dikyjvo guidelines, but in English ratrher than Carterism) but more 
importantly going into several examples that display the types of issues that
come up in deciding places structures.  You obviously have the best handle
on the data base for that, hence are the natural person to "volunteer".
If you don;t want to try to match Cowan's pedagogical style, fine.  I can have
him do a rewrite on your results.  But you can probably better than him
identify the issues (and he says he's tired of writing papers right now
anyway).

There will be a higher priority - giving me a current revision of all your
ckafybarja text including any changes derived from comments on the net.  As
stated in the separate posting, I intend to publish the ckafybarja writings
in their best current form at publication date, subject to the comments on
my proposal in that messsage.  I of course will be especially interested in
your comments, since it was your proposal that started the ball rolling in
my mind when I finally had time to think about it (I've been running on pure
adrenalin for 24 hours + since then, more Lojban enthusiasm than I've had
for weeks; I hope others like the idea)

lojbab