From LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Sat Mar 6 22:45:57 2010 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list Date: Tue Dec 12 16:41:32 1995 From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: lojban dialectology X-To: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU X-cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan Status: OR X-From-Space-Date: Tue Dec 12 16:41:32 1995 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU Message-ID: >There have been already more than >thirty such proposals by John Cowan and nobody has had to do any relearning >for that. This is incorrect. *WE* had to do the relearning. Almsot no one else had done much learning of the language at the point when most of those changes were made. SEveral of the changes DID cause relearning difficulties, htough generally Cowan kept his propsoals confined to the simple extension category. But the inside/outside relative clause proposal, for one, was a biggie, and I am not sure >I< have relearned it yet. The moment you cannot parse an older text because of a grammar change, relearning is necessary. I would have to go through, but I suspect that several of Cowan's proposals would have caused effects on old text. The main saving grace is that the bullet-biting rafsi revision which was even bigger as a change than almost any grammar change, makes it unlikely that most people will turn to old texts without running them through a translator. lojbab