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Re: Digest Number 374



In a message dated 2/25/2000 5:32:34 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
lojban@onelist.com writes:

> 
> I like at the lujvo that the TLI group is stuck with because of bad 
> decisions by JCB. TLI has not baselined their language, but (so far as we 
> know) their lexicon has been frozen in concrete in terms of bad tanru. (Of 
> course we don't know this, since we don't have the dictionary, but I would 
> be mildly surprised if "man-do" for "manning a ship" was 
> changed. Certainly Lognet has never announced any paring or replacement 
of 
> bad metaphors.)
> 
they aren't stuck with bad lujvo. anyone can make a new word whenever he 
wants. getting the current ones out of the dictionary might be a chore 
though.
(BTW, what does " I like at the lujvo " mean? look at them? )
Steven