[lojban-beginners] Re: Help! The Xorlo are attacking!

["A. PIEKARSKI" <totus@rogers.com>]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>
> To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org
> Sent: Sat, February 13, 2010 10:19:50 AM
> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Help! The Xorlo are attacking!
> 
> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 11:53 AM, A. PIEKARSKI <> ymailto="mailto:totus@rogers.com"; 
> href="mailto:totus@rogers.com";>totus@rogers.com> wrote:
>
> 
> No wonder everyone is confused!  Exactly where are cmene and cmevla
> 
> definitively defined?


At some point, after CLL and LfB were 
> written, we decided that using
"cmene" in English with this specialized 
> meaning was a bad idea,
because "cmene" doesn't mean and never meant that in 
> Lojban. So at
that point English borrowed a new word from Lojban, "cmevla", 
> to refer
to those Lojban words that end in a consonant. "cmene" is now used 
> in
English to mean "(any) Lojban name", which is still more 
> restricted
than its meaning in Lojban.


I understand what you are saying.  But when you say "we", do you mean the BPFK 
(i.e. is it 'official')?  And where is this decision 'enshrined'?  Shouldn't it be on some 
BPFK page on the wiki?  After all, when there is an apparent discrepency between 
CLL and jbovlaste, most people who don't know the history will likely choose CLL as 
the final authority.

totus