[lojban-beginners] Re: Why not a new LfB text?

[Robert LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>]

ANDREW PIEKARSKI wrote:
> But will this issue be an open one forever, or is there a date by which 
> we can expect a final decsion? 

There is no specific date, and given my record of promising dictionaries 
and textbooks for many years without delivering, you would be wise not 
to believe me if I did give a date.

> Having all of the community accept the change is surely an impossibility

No.

There have been far greater changes that have been easily accepted.

>- in the meantime, confusion will reign unabated.

It shouldn't, since it is claimed xorlo would make very little pre-xorlo 
text incorrect.   xorlo affects the logico-semantic analysis of a gadri 
expression, but does not change the grammar.

Things have muddled along without xorlo for 20 years, and for 30 years 
before that in Loglan.  Xorxes has been arguing for changes of the sort 
incorporated into xorlo for about 13 years.  It is hard to see the lack 
of a final decision as a crisis.

Just how are such things decided?

By consensus among the byfy membership, and consensus sometimes takes a 
while to achieve, especially since a "final decision" is not a high 
priority for many of us.  Furthermore, the policy right now is that NO 
decisions will be final until we have completed ALL of the baseline 
review, and defined ALL of the cmavo.

lojbab