[lojban] Re: Philosophical differences.

[Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>]

John E Clifford wrote:
> But English never does anything officially, since there is no official to do it. 

And if there were, the controversy level would be much higher.

People have unofficially added gismu and cmavo to Lojban, and deleting 
them unofficially consists simply of nt using them.  It is the desire to 
change the official list that creates controversy.


> Does anyone feel the need to learn all the words of Lojban?  Maybe
> all the gismu and a lot of the cmavo, but probably not even that at
> the start.  

"all the gismu and a lot of the cmavo" is precisely why that is the set 
that is baselined.

No, they don't need it at the start, but those of us who reached that 
point of learning those words have a substantial investment, and thus 
strongly resist change.

lojbab



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