[lojban] Re: Nick will be with you shortly

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

Invent Yourself scripsit:

> Therefore it falls in the category of our ce'u changes: we have set
> forth clear principles for the use of ce'u from now on, but older Lojban
> must be read with the knowledge that the modern principles weren't yet
> formulated, and it must be read more forgivingly.

This is a sine qua non of any acceptable solution: even on Flag Day when the
rafsi assignments were changed (the last really drastic change), we had to
adopt this interpretive convention.

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