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Subject:      Re: lojban dialectology
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To: Veijo Vilva <veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI>
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>When there is a broad and deep consensus about changes to be made, and a
>new version of lojban seems reasonable, then do the following:
>
>1. Work out all the collisions, implications, and subtle effects of the
>proposed new elements of lojban. la lojbanistani can then meet at the next
>lojban bash
>
><xu le lojban mumnoncitsi>
>
>where merriment & social lubricants will be featured, and where the academy
>of right-thinking lojbi will eventually give the stamp of approval to the
>new version.
>
>2. As part of the new version release, assure that there is a well-defined,
>nonambiguous translation algorithm from la papinomoi lojban -> la papipamoi
>lojban (or whatever). Thus all well-formed extant texts can be translated.


Except that we have guaranteed to NOT have such a revision meeting for at least
 5 years, your proposal is more or less what we have in mind.  We also are not
all that sure that we will have any formal "Academy" to approve changes that
have crept in, or whether we will be good descriptivists and simply note the
fact, and let whoever wants to write/maintain a parser/version trabnslator
do so unofficially.

lojbab