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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 12:03:05 -0500
From: "Robert A. McIvor" <rmcivor@macsrule.com>
Subject: Re: Dr. James Cooke Brown
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>We changed the set of permissible initials and medials to make things
>linguistically symmetric (and hence more algorithmic) - GMR had replaced
>the original symmetry by an irregular collection of permissibles, based on
>"taste tests" that we knew were biased by English speakers and reportedly
>by controversial statistical analysis (RAM was the person who had raised
>the controversy and is more qualified than I am to discuss it).
>
	Maybe, but I prefer to leave it dead.

>We added the apostrophe, and the corresponding close-comma for the
>syllable-dividing reasons I stated in another post.

	I thought Loglan has had a syllable dividing close-comma since long
before the split.  Lo,is is the example given.
>
>Several months later, we found an ambiguity bug in JCB's complex making
>algorithm, which he and I had written down in its then current form when I
>visited him in May 1986.  I have read nothing to indicate that TLI has ever
>corrected that bug in their version - presumably RAM knows.  (I'll provide
>details separately if anyone cares). Fixing that bug was the most
>significant change we made to the morphology after the start.

	We did, as soon as you pointed it out, but perhaps not in the same
fashion.

Sincerely,
Robert A. McIvor
(rmcivor@mac.com)