Date: Thu, 12 Dec 96 09:56:49 -0501 Message-Id: <9612121457.AA02296@spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu> From: "Robert J. Chassell" To: lojbab@access.digex.net, cowan@locke.ccil.org Subject: example of naming problems X-UIDL: a10e92bc4267a41138c35be4746d24e9 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 818 X-From-Space-Date: Tue Dec 17 10:07:11 1996 X-From-Space-Address: - Lojbab's comment a day or two ago reminded me to notice what I was doing. This morning I wrote to someone seriously interested in Lojban and found my self required to make a qualification, to prevent the word `reference' from taking on its usual connotation: The Lojban reference manual is very nearly frozen as a standard and even though it is called a `reference' manual, it is very readable. If the words `reference grammar' appear on the cover of the book, they should be part of a sub title or explanation, perhaps in a phrase such as: `this work also serves as a reference grammar'. Ah, for the joys of a small in-group... :) -- Robert J. Chassell bob@gnu.ai.mit.edu 25 Rattlesnake Mountain Road bob@rattlesnake.com Stockbridge, MA 01262-0693 USA (413) 298-4725