Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 23:10:18 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 23:10:18 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: John Cowan From: sbelknap@uic.edu (Steven Belknap) Subject: Re: Author's Alteration #10 X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 1447 X-From-Space-Date: Mon Feb 24 10:18:45 1997 X-From-Space-Address: - >Technically, the book is baselined and the gismu list >place structures are not, so the strictly conformant >thing to do is to change the gismu list to make it >sentences rather than propositions. However, the >Ad Hoc Committee mentioned above agrees that this >would be the Wrong Thing, so we are changing the book >as specified by the following plaintext diff So the Lojban Academy has made its first deliberation. Apparently the need for an informal body to deliberate as to the best interests of the language has become obvious. How about if this informal body is formalized? How about if this formalized body documents its work in lojban, with appropriate translation to English as indicated? I would urge the members of the informal lojban academy to report substantive changes to the grammer in both lojban and English. I hate to say I told you so, lojbab, but I told you so. I predict many additional errors which are more than just typos will turn up in the "baselined" grammer. I predict that as we gain experience with the language, that the wisdom of certain extensions and improvements will become evident, and that the need for a formal lojban academy will be very clear. I mean no offense here. A language is a complex thing. The need for adjustment refinement is hardly surprising. -Steven Steven Belknap, M.D. Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Medicine University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria