Re: Quantifiers (was Re: A modest proposal #2: verdicality)

[Logical Language Group <lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET>]

I think that the only Lojban rule of politeness is that attitudinals are
to be used honestly - i.e to express actual emotions.  Then if someone
uses a lot of attitudinals, one can read thhe emotions much as one might
read someone's body language, and the message of the predications may then
become subsidiary to whatever the emotional context is.

At least that is the way I think it will/should work %^).

Much of the language is patched - there was, and still is - a sizable
contingent of the community that considers Lojban to be Loglan, and certain
cvhanges from the original design are thus out of order being contrary to
JCB's original concepts for the language.  I have always tried to make the
language a fulfillment of his concept and not a new concept in itself.
He may not appreciate this, but it is part of my own intellectual integrity
that I have to do it this way.

In any event, it was decided a few years ago that fiddling had to stop (much
 less:
> a rewrite rather than further patching
> > is in order.
which might cause a full scale revolt of many long-timers.

lojbab