[lojban-beginners] Re: Noob

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 12/15/05, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> Nothing has changed because the BPFK hasn't finished.  Until we do,
> everything we do is subject to change.  *Some* people are choosing
> to take what we've done so far as gospel, but that doesn't mean that
> anything has actually changed.

It might also be worth pointing out that almost nothing *will* have
changed even when the BPFK *has* finished (if that ever happens :)
The language is extremely stable and practically all the work of
the BPFK has been on clarification and sorting out of minor
details. I think it would be extremely hard for people to find
past texts that were in accordance with CLL and not in accordance
with BPFK. (Now, texts that violate CLL in one way or another
are extremely easy to find, because nobody has total mastery of
the language and a large propoertion of texts are or were written
while learning the language, but that's a different issue.)

> When it *does* change, we will publish change pages to go with the
> old CLL; we have no intention of making the old CLL useless.

In fact if there ever is a second edition of the CLL, the BPFK
contribution will probably amount to a few footnotes here and there
and not much more. We do enjoy making a big brouhaha when
discussing "changes" to the language, but anyone who stops to
examine what the changes really consist of can see that it's mostly
much ado about nothing.

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