Re: The Mad Proposals

[ucleaar <ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK>]

> > If I had a vote, which I don't,
> > I'd support Jorge's proposals, unless there turned out to be good
> > language-internal arguments against them.
>
> You do have a vote, like every Lojbanist, and your vote is duly noted.

I'm very pleased to have a vote, of course, but by what right do I
have one? Presumably anyone is a Lojbanist who wants to be, and anyone
in the world who cares to vote in this debate may vote. But this
privileges people with net access (it takes more effot to vote
by snail mail). And also, it's all very well for me to support the
change (since I value Lojban more for its idealism than its practicality),
but I'm not going to have to be the one who has to redraft textbooks,
and so on. If Jorge's proposals really are to be put to the vote
it ought to be established beforehand to what extent Lojbab and John
Cowan are willing to carry them out.
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