Return-Path: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@vms.dc.LSOFT.COM Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE (segate.sunet.se [192.36.125.6]) by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id DAA23046 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 03:25:57 +0200 Message-Id: <199512130125.DAA23046@xiron.pc.helsinki.fi> Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id CC4AC452 ; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 2:25:56 +0100 Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 23:25:21 -0200 Reply-To: "Paulo S.L.M. Barreto" Sender: Lojban list From: "Paulo S.L.M. Barreto" Subject: Re: lojban dialectology X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 991 Lines: 22 la lojbab. di'e cusku >[li'o] Indeed, as the community gets sizable, I envision >that the parser will come to have the same role as the FRench Academy and >American prescriptivists (I think you have an academy down there too to keep >Brazilian Protuguese in line with that of Portugal). Yes, but they don't use to have much success :-) In fact, they sometimes don't even agree what's correct Portuguese... >[li'o] After that >5 year period, the parser will hgave to follow the community (or at least >mutual respect between the community and the parser-as-prescription will have >to exist), or there will be mothing. The whole point is that the language >designers will be getting out of the prescription business. This gives rise to several questions. What if common usage introduces ambiguities in the language after that period? Who's going to update the parser? Who's going to decide what to keep and what to accept as an evolutionary change? So many questions... co'o mi'e paulos.