Return-Path: <@SEGATE.SUNET.SE:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET> Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0sBgHm-0009acC; Wed, 17 May 95 13:25 EET DST Message-Id: Received: from segate.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v0.1a) with SMTP id B465E33C ; Wed, 17 May 1995 12:25:05 +0100 Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 06:23:49 -0400 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: Quantifiers (was Re: A modest proposal #2: verdicality) X-To: DPT@HUMA1.BITNET X-cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 1091 Lines: 23 I think that the only Lojban rule of politeness is that attitudinals are to be used honestly - i.e to express actual emotions. Then if someone uses a lot of attitudinals, one can read thhe emotions much as one might read someone's body language, and the message of the predications may then become subsidiary to whatever the emotional context is. At least that is the way I think it will/should work %^). Much of the language is patched - there was, and still is - a sizable contingent of the community that considers Lojban to be Loglan, and certain cvhanges from the original design are thus out of order being contrary to JCB's original concepts for the language. I have always tried to make the language a fulfillment of his concept and not a new concept in itself. He may not appreciate this, but it is part of my own intellectual integrity that I have to do it this way. In any event, it was decided a few years ago that fiddling had to stop (much less: > a rewrite rather than further patching > > is in order. which might cause a full scale revolt of many long-timers. lojbab