Prayers to Lord Zipf (was: Why we should cancel the vote or all voteNO (was Official Statement- LLG Board approves new baseline policy))

[Invent Yourself <xod@thestonecutters.net>]

On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Jordan DeLong wrote:

> >
> > I don't crave ANY change to any cmavo that I already know and use.  I want
> > the bloody language to stop changing long enough for me and others to
> > really learn it and BECOME skilled speakers.
>
> .iecai
>
> Shortings of ke'a and ce'u and du'u etc (and not groups of cmavo
> containing them) are nothing less than tinkering, as far as I'm
> concerned.  It would never happen without significant deliberate
> prescription in the future, which is something hopefully to be a
> unneeded as possible.



Rearranging cmavo to appease Zipf should be done by renegade users. The BF
lacks (and should continue to lack) the mandate for such a thing. The BF
is for cleaning up the existing language, not for altering it to propitate
competing idols.



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Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.