Return-Path: <@FINHUTC.HUT.FI:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET> Received: from FINHUTC.hut.fi by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #14) id m0perS7-0000R2C; Thu, 10 Mar 94 22:35 EET Message-Id: Received: from FINHUTC.HUT.FI by FINHUTC.hut.fi (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 6474; Thu, 10 Mar 94 22:35:19 EET Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin MAILER@SEARN) by FINHUTC.HUT.FI (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 6472; Thu, 10 Mar 1994 22:35:19 +0200 Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin LISTSERV@SEARN) by SEARN.SUNET.SE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 3680; Thu, 10 Mar 1994 21:34:20 +0100 Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 23:11:29 +0000 Reply-To: ucleaar Sender: Lojban list From: ucleaar Subject: Re: The Mad Proposals X-To: lojban@cuvma.BITNET To: Veijo Vilva In-Reply-To: (Your message of Wed, 09 Mar 94 12:25:27 EST.) <199403091725.AA05850@access3.digex.net> Content-Length: 887 Lines: 18 > > If I had a vote, which I don't, > > I'd support Jorge's proposals, unless there turned out to be good > > language-internal arguments against them. > > You do have a vote, like every Lojbanist, and your vote is duly noted. I'm very pleased to have a vote, of course, but by what right do I have one? Presumably anyone is a Lojbanist who wants to be, and anyone in the world who cares to vote in this debate may vote. But this privileges people with net access (it takes more effot to vote by snail mail). And also, it's all very well for me to support the change (since I value Lojban more for its idealism than its practicality), but I'm not going to have to be the one who has to redraft textbooks, and so on. If Jorge's proposals really are to be put to the vote it ought to be established beforehand to what extent Lojbab and John Cowan are willing to carry them out. ----- And