At 03:04 PM 06/15/2001 -0400, pycyn@aol.com wrote:
We have two and a half choices so far, neither of which involves any change of grammar or vocabulary -- yet. 1) Keep the present system but clean up the presentation and make maybe a few additions or modifications if clearly needed. Advantages: no change is almost always an advantage. a lot ofdocumentation and accepted usage. easy rhetorical devices with position of UI.Disadvantages: It is going to take a lot of rewriting, as the presentation so far has not dealt consistently or clearly with what have become the major issues. the features of major interest are currently only loosely connected with form, so each word has to be learned separately (claimed). known cases of inadequacy (a'o) not dealt with and no program for dealing with other cases that may be discovered. present cases limited to parallels with English, no allowance for new, Lojbanic, discoveries.
Option 1a)Keep the present system with no changes. Use the language. When misunderstandings occur, clarify them (hopefully without rancor, and preferably in Lojban). Adjust usage so that it "works". 5 years from whenever, describe what the language has become.
Advantages: as per 1)Disadvantages: possibilities of misunderstandings. Repeated raising of issues that have not been fully resolved. Possible difficulties in teaching, though most of the issues that come up are transparent to anyone with less than a year of Lojban experience (Newcomers may understand the arguments, but usually not the full range of tradeoffs.)
lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org