Re: [lojban] Re: Projects

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.hn.org>]

On Friday 23 July 2004 15:00, reverendzow wrote:
> What's a BPFK?  I think such a change -could- happen, but to do so,
> the following would have to occur:  Someone creates a new Lojban
> vocabulary that has major improvements over the current one (although
> this is not necessarily possible), then the existing (and relatively
> small as I understand it) Lojban community would need to be convinced
> that this new vocabulary was worth the work in switching.  $0.02

baupla fuzykamni: language design committee. This is a committee charged with 
defining the meanings of cmavo, gathering whatever usage there has been of 
them, and fixing anything that's broken. We had a very long and sometimes 
incomprehensible (at least to me) discussion about the meaning of {lo}, with 
such examples as {mi nitcu lo mikce} and {lo pavyseljirna cu blabi} (though 
both were around before the BPFK started on the problem).

For {mi nitcu lo mikce} the problem is: does that imply {da poi mikce zo'u mi 
nitcu da}? That is, if I need a doctor, is there a doctor that I need? This 
depends on whether {lo mikce} is interpreted extensionally or intensionally.

For {lo pavyseljirna cu blabi}: does "unicorns are white" imply that unicorns 
exist?

phma
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