From LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU Sat Feb 10 11:24:41 1996 Received: from VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (vms.dc.lsoft.com [205.186.43.2]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id LAA14045 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 1996 11:24:38 -0500 Message-Id: <199602101624.LAA14045@locke.ccil.org> Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (205.186.43.4) by VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id A25147AC ; Sat, 10 Feb 1996 10:47:28 -0500 Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 10:46:51 -0500 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: *old response on gismu baseline To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu Status: OR X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 1009 >Isn't there any provision for new gismu? I think words like "xorvo" are >newly proposed, (so far) unofficial gismu. Or the existing list will be >frozen also in number of words? > >co'o mi'e paulos. Since the gismu list baseline, the list has been frozen in number of words. Obviously people can coin new ones, but not according to standards. Most likely, after the 5 year baseline, new gismu will be considered, with functionality in lujvo-making likely to be a major criterion. I strongly suspect that cultural gismu will NOT be added, because they are so controversial in the first place, and people in general would rather there be fewer cultural gismu, rather than more, in the language. (Any criterion that allows the addition of a gismu for Croatia for example, would probably require a word for almost every other nation of the world - and I think there are close to 200 these days - and that presumes you don't get down into nationalities that are not gugde. lojbab