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> On a parallel note, it's interesting that the people who were around
> when the notion of lujvo was being developed have a quite different
> understanding of the intent behind lujvo than those who came much
> later in the game. Poor communication?
Has anyone besides PC who was around then spoken up on this point?
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Is there anyone besides pc (lowercase, please) who was around then and still active?
Ah yes, Chassell -- who wisely stays out of this kind of dispute (and just about all others not involving software).
The problem is partly poor communication, perhaps, but more (I think) a break in institutional continuity and a small but significant shift in the demographics of the community. There are, it seems, no longer any significant number of non-computer people around (I apologize to anyone that I have missed) and that has led to a more algorithmic approach to issues than the more humane sort that once was at least present, if not dominant. Most old lujvo were also literalist, but these were discarded when a telling metaphor came along -- as it fairly often did when the concept was useful enough.
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