[lojban] Re: zo'o nai sai

[Arnt Richard Johansen <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Theodore Reed wrote:

> On 11/18/06, keppel@pdx.edu <keppel@pdx.edu> wrote:
> > .io cai
> > zoi gy. Quit mucking around with the language. I just read that police are
> > giving up "ten codes" because they couldn't agree. We need to revere the 
> > big
> > red book, at least in memory of John Cowan. .gy.
>
> What the hell are you talking about? Ten codes? And John Cowan isn't dead.
> As a member of the bpfk, I can assure you that the "mucking around" isn't
> done. There is no baseline. The language is not complete. There will be a
> second edition of the big red book.

I presume he is referring to the news item that is commented on in
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003771.html . I may be 
wrong, but in the context of his expressed dislike of the "la" discussion, 
he is probably using the proliferation of conflicting code schemes in the 
different police departments as a metaphor of the (perceived) danger of 
dialectification of Lojban.

--
Arnt Richard Johansen                                http://arj.nvg.org/
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         nettverkskabelen.


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