Re: [jboske] CAI (was: RE: more true (was: ka ka (was: Context Leapers))

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

And Rosta scripsit:

> As an aside, John says that the Incredibly Bad Idea about the scope
> of ku-less na was down to Lojbab's prescription. But how did we let
> this happen? 

When I joined the Project in 1989 (just about when the list began),
the grammar of NA was as it is today. When writing what became the
negation chapter of CLL, I asked Lojbab how and why the grammar changed
from Loglan's initial "no" (non-initial "no" typically meant "na'e", as
the na/na'e distinction does not exist in Loglan, but sometimes "na bo").
He replied that it had been changed for greater naturalism.

This does not exactly pinpoint whodunit: it might have been any of the
following: Lojbab, Nora, Jeff Taylor (YACC author), or possibly another
of the very early Lojbanists.

Since nobody protested, nothing got changed.

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