From cowan Mon Jan 29 11:14:52 1996 Subject: Stability (was: cultural gismu) From: John Cowan To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban List) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 11:14:52 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <199601281202.HAA26102@locke.ccil.org> from "Logical Language Group" at Jan 28, 96 04:51:49 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Status: OR X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 870 Message-ID: la lojbab. cusku di'e > This actually says something about the nature of Lojban baselines - the gismu > list baseline,being much older and more firm than the grammar baseline, > and not the subject of a book, is nearly inviolable as to the baseline > elements (i.e the keywords and the rafsi). This can be compared to the > continued discussability of grammar changes because we haven;t so firmly > closed the door. The gismu-list stability is what most of the community seems > to want before they will learn the language. Before this causes more misunderstandings, I hasten to paraphrase the last sentence as: # Stability of the type that the gismu list now has, is what most of the # community seems to want in other aspects of the language before they # will learn Lojban. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.