From LOJBAN%CUVMB.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU Sat Mar 6 22:55:22 2010 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Sun, 28 Mar 1993 13:31:57 -0500 Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 2078; Sun, 28 Mar 93 00:18:32 EST Received: from CUVMB.BITNET by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 5841; Sun, 28 Mar 93 00:19:51 EST Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1993 00:17:48 -0500 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: TECH: grammar updates X-To: cowan@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM X-Cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Erik Rauch Status: OR X-From-Space-Date: Sat Mar 27 19:17:48 1993 X-From-Space-Address: @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Message-ID: If the result of the debate is that "mau" goes away, then we are making a significant change in the language, since it is one of the more used cmavo, to my recollection, as well as one that dates back to Loglan. I thus suspect that there must be a way developed that allows the pragmatic abbreviation implict in the cmavo, and that there will be opposition from the conservative forces otherwise (unless this is "slipped by" on them, which I cannot support). lojbab