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From: Robert LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>
To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 6:57:29 AM
Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Why not a new LfB text?
There seems to be more xorlo users active on the net, but it is indeed
difficult to get a change actually approved (and most people are happy
about this). A lot of us "old fogeys" are from the pre-Internet culture
and aren't quite so visible, so one doesn't often see as much of the
standard usage.
This week, an old-timer from Finland indicated his opposition to xorlo
as being malglico because it makes distinctions that are important in
English that are not important in Finnish, and which he believes are
undesirable in a logical language. It is a late objection, but it shows
that xorlo is not universally approved of. The main question is whether
there are any other solutions to issues in the baseline, that all of the
community could accept.
But will this issue be an open one forever, or is there a date by which we can expect a final decsion? Having all of the community accept the change is surely an impossibility - in the meantime, confusion will reign unabated. Just how are such things decided?
mu'o mi'e andrus