[lojban-beginners] Re: Fwd: the gismu typos

["Marjorie Scherf" <skaryzgik@gmail.com>]

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Vid Sintef <picos.picos@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 5:58 PM, komfo,amonan <komfoamonan@gmail.com> wrote:
> What you lose by doing that is decreased readability/usability of Lojban
> texts written previous to the change. You would, for example, have to search
> on both variants to research usage examples.

I think of its analogy to the British vs American English.

Different dialects/languages always have different rules. That's what makes them be different dialects. "British" and "American" English are very similar to each other and are mutually intelligible in the vast majority of situations, but they are still not the same.

The line between dialects and languages is not a sharp one, there is no clear distinction. Unless we want to construct separate dialects of Lojban, having the different spellings would add ambiguity. Ambiguity which is unnecessary and can be avoided, at least for the time being. But isn't one of Lojban's core principles that it is designed to avoid unnecessary ambiguities?

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