From LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Sat Mar 6 22:46:25 2010 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list Date: Tue Dec 12 15:36:26 1995 From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: lojban dialectology X-To: sjb@universe.digex.net X-cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan Status: OR X-From-Space-Date: Tue Dec 12 15:36:26 1995 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU Message-ID: >Out of curiosity, what's to prevent the "natural" evolution of lojban >from violating some of the design goals? Nothing. Except perhasp that people who choose to speak Lojban almost always have some respect for those design goals, and therefore will not consciously choose a change that violates those design goals. >I've a pet project involving computer interpretation of lojban. I >specifically liked lojban for its lack of syntactic ambiguity and >audio-visual isomorphism. The loss of these features would render the >language useless, IMHO. Well, useless is a bit strong, but certainly useles for your purposes. I am also opposed stringly to any change thatviolates those design goals. several others are as well. But there exist no language police who can/will force people to follow the rules. So there will always be pressure for change through unconscious deviation. My contention is that such change will be slower than any conscious reform efforts like we see from And and Jorge. lojbab