[lojban] Re: a new kind of fundamentalism

[Jay F Kominek <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:33:11AM +0300, Robin Turner wrote:
> On the subject of fundamentalism, the CLL is the ultimate authority on 
> Lojban usage, not.  The ultimate authority is the BNF grammar + the 
> gismu list + the cmavo list.  The CLL simply exists to make this 
> understandable to carbon-based life-forms.  Incidentally, I was talking 
> to a philosophically-inclined computer scientist some years back about 
> Lojban.  His comment: "You've got a BNF grammar?  That is so cool!"

The grammar only covers the syntax, but does so authoritatively and in
a fashion which allows it to decide for any utterance.

The wordlists at this point don't seem to do a whizzbang job of thoroughly
describing the semantics.

And that usage of 'not' went out of style while I was still a
teenager. :) Though I suppose it could've made its way back in.

-- 
Jay Kominek <jkominek@miranda.org>
A UNIX is anything which is subtly incompatible
with everything else claiming to be a UNIX.