[lojban-beginners] Re: Up-to-date definition of Lojban

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 11:33:02AM -0300, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> On 11/19/05, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 12:03:42PM +0600, Yanis Batura wrote:
> > > While preparing the third and fourth modules for Parallel, I
> > > found out (thanks to xorxes!) that the following sources now
> > > and then contradict each other:
> > >
> > > 1) Lojban For Beginners (LFB)
> > >
> > > 2) The Complete Lojban Language (CLL)
> > >
> > > 3) Definitions from cmavo.txt and gismu.txt
> > >
> > > 4) Definitions from BPFK sections.
> >
> > Yes, and I really wish xorxes would stop talking about that to
> > newbies.  It's caused much more confusion than is useful.
> 
> I don't see why beginners should be treated as if they were
> incapable of using their brains. 

It has nothing to do with using their brains or not.  It has to do
with not presenting *unfinished works* to people as though they were
canon.  They're not.  Period.

If I had thought people were going to go around trumpeting the BPFK
stuff as gospel before we were done, I likely wouldn't have taken
the jatna job.

-Robin

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