Re: [jboske] Heh

[Robert LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 03:37 AM 1/13/03 +1100, Nick Nicholas wrote:
> So, when I commit a jboskeism, Bob praises it and says there's a paper
> in it (in what, realising that emergence is a stronger property than
> collective?);

You misread my intent. Seems I can't express a compliment without it being 
taken wrong.

I didn't say the bit about the paper. I *asked* it, with much hope that it 
was true.

I praised your effort, and your confidence that you are making progress; I 
don't know that you are correct. I also hope that when you claim that you 
are learning neat stuff, that this will prove helpful to your career. This 
will make you happier in the long term and be beneficial to Lojban in 
having had a role in producing the great linguist Nick Nicholas.

This was not a blessing of your result as official Lojban doctrine, which I 
don't have the power to do. I am just very happy that when And despairs of 
the mess that is "SL", and Cowan does not, and you seem to be proving Cowan 
correct, that this is something I can appropriately express approval of.

> and when you commit one, it's the end of Lojban as we know it? How do I 
> get to be the good guy and you the bad guy?

I have confidence that when Nick Nicholas says something is working nicely, 
that it indeed is working, based on track record. I tend to do the same 
for Cowan. You guys have years of Lojbanic track record that I've agreed 
with far more than disagreed. I don't have that automatic confidence in 
the pronouncements of others.

lojbab

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