----- Original Message ----
From: Robert LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>
To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 1:45:54 PM
Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Why not a new LfB text?
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.
Many thanks - that clarifies a lot of issues. But I would like to know what remains to be done to complete the baseline review after the cmavo definition are done. In any case, given the large number of camvos, and the possibility of endless (?) discussions on each of them, this could take many many years. Am I right?
mu'o mi'e andrus