Re: [lojban] le ga'ifanta

["Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 12:00 AM 05/22/2000 -0400, Invent Yourself wrote:
> On Sun, 21 May 2000 pycyn@aol.com wrote:
>
> >  > them
> >  >  > or debate them during the time of the freeze (which is open-ended 
> - it
> > is
> >  > a
> >  >  > 5 year MINIMUM in which the 5 years starts only after the books 
> are all
> >  >  > published, which still has not occurred yet).
> >
> >
> >  .i ja'o do natfe le tu'a la bab>>
> >  Nope, just interpreting him in the light of events.  The freeze has 
> been in
> > effect for some years now -- I even remember having a meeting or two to 
> vote
> > necessary changes to save the grammar.  It will remain in effect until at
> > least five years after the books are published.  Remember that the 
> purpose of
>
>
> My only point here was that Bob said the baseline starts when the books
> are done; in the future, and hasn't started yet.

No.  I said that the 5 years starts when the books are done:
> The concept of the freeze is that we will not even take ideas, propose them
> or debate them during the time of the freeze (which is open-ended - it is a
> 5 year MINIMUM in which the 5 years starts only after the books are all
> published, which still has not occurred yet).

The freeze has already started, but the 5 years has not.  The freeze will 
continue for 5 years and perhaps longer after the books are published.

If someone wants to figure out how to make this unambiguously clear in 
Lojban, it seems appropriate that such a policy be expressed in Lojban as 
well as in English.

lojbab
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