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[lojban] Re: if this be error and vpon me provd (was: RE: Re: [Announcement] The Alice Translation Has Moved And Changed



And Rosta wrote:
Lojbab:

As for the question of errors, if it violates the baseline, then by definition it IS an error, assuming that the baseline has any meaning whatsoever.


It is not an error if witting and deliberate. We don't say that, say,
the language of Finnegans Wake errs, even if it is ungrammatical.
So it sounds like you are explicitly advocating public dialectization of the language even on issues where there is a clear baseline position if you think that position to be wrong, which sounds like out-and-out rejection that the baseline has any meaning?


He wasn't, but it is the only solution.

Dialectisation the only solution? zo'o Given the size of the Lojban user base, I think dialectisation would result in Lojban testing not the Sapir-whorf hypothesis, but Wittgenstein's argument against the possibility of private languages.

robin.tr




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