[lojban-beginners] Re: coi ro do

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 8/15/09, Joshua Choi <joshua@choi.name> wrote:
> I see. From what I can tell, "xorlo" is some sort of proposal for
> reform of the article system of Lojban. But I have two questions:
>
> - The gadri proposal was "has now been accepted by a vote of 11 to 0
> by the BPFK". The proposal seems to date from 2004. Are there plans to
> edit the reference grammar (and The Complete Lojban Language physical
> book) to reflect these new guidelines, or is there still not enough
> consensus in the community, or has there not been enough resources to
> edit the book?

I think the plan is to sell all or most of the remaining copies of the
physical book before thinking of a new edition, but another issue is
that the BPFK has been dormant for quite a while, so the lack is
mainly of human rather than monetary resources.

> - The proposal has information on the new meanings of the non-
> deprecated articles, but none on the deprecated articles. (For
> instance, why was it decided that the articles for typical and
> stereotypical objects should be deprecated, and what should I use
> instead?) I found couple of old mailing list messages, but they're
> hard to follow. Where could I find more information on the proposal's
> deprecation?

"lo'e" and "le'e" were not included in that page because nobody really
knew what they were supposed to mean exactly, they are still part of
the BPFK to-do list. Depending on what you want to say, you could use
just "lo broda" or "lo fadni be lo ka broda", for example.

mu'o mi'e xorxes