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Re: [lojban] Re: non-core translations
At 07:04 PM 8/6/02 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> > Removing places would be a violation of the standards of the baseline as
> > conveyed to me when we started, and hence would require a higher degree of
> > consensus than I think is possible. If it was in fact agreed, and no
> > example in the CLL enshrines the current place structure, you would have a
> > stronger case than normal, but under the guidelines I've received, I am not
> > considering any such changes and will not do so on my own. We don't have a
> > Lojban academy, so you basically have to convince the whole community and
> > document the change.
>
>Is it possible to *add* places? {remna} denotes a member of a species, and so
>ought to have an x2 for the species, as does {cinfo}; and likewise {panje} if
>used for the animal.
As I said, my interpretation of the mandate given to me is that the place
structures are baselined are not to be changed. Clarifications make sense
if the community agrees that they are necessary, and if people agree as to
what the clarification should be. The standard for a place structure
change at this late date would likely have to require convincing a
consensus of the community that the status quo is broken to the point of
being unusable (which Jorge probably feels about a couple of the gismu).
panje was not necessarily intended to be an animal. Whether you consider
remna an animal probably depends on your religion/philosophy, and Lojban is
officially neutral on such things. cinfo was probably a mistake, but since
so many people question having the species place on any of the
animals/animals, it is hard to call it a critical mistake sufficient to
warrant a baseline change.
lojbab
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