Re: [lojban] Re: [lojban-announcements] Essay on the future of Lojban, with a simple poll for the community.

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 04:05:56AM -0400, Bob LeChevalier wrote:
> Lojban needs to remain stable and resistant to change, especially
> in the near term.  When numbers of Lojbanists and formal
> documentation are both strong enough, then "improvements" will
> generally be made by usage, not by fiat, with skilled Lojbanists
> being the only ones having the capability to demonstrate and
> explain their variant usages in-language, and other skilled
> Lojbanists voting-with-their-usage to adopt the variation.

The problem is this will never, ever happen.  Knowing Lojbanists as
I do, what would actually happen is we'd argue about things and then
decide what to adopt explicitely, and *then* go out and use it.
This is very much not anything like real language drift, which is
what you seem to have in mind.

-Robin

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