On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Arnt Richard Johansen
<arj@nvg.org> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 02:02:25PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> I would like Lojban to remain as close as it possibly can to its
> current state, regardless of whether I or a group of experienced
> Lojbanists see that improvements could be made.
>
> Agree or disagree?
I used to believe that the most important thing for the regular user and learner of Lojban was that the language should not change from under their feet, so that the effort spent learning it would not go to waste.
But the responses I've seen to this poll from beginners and old-timers alike have convinced me that, if this was the prevailing opinion fifteen years ago, it is certainly not the prevailing opinion now.
It does give me pause that the LLG now appears to be on the course to breaking the promise it made in CLL in 1997: “You can learn the language described here with assurance that (unlike previous versions of Lojban and Loglan, as well as most other artificial languages) it will not be subject to further fiddling by language-meisters.” But, since the community does not seem to care that much about stability, maybe that does not after all represent a fatal blow to the LLG's credibility?
In any case, from now on I will stop arguing for conservatism on behalf of a silent majority that turns out to nothing but a product of confirmation bias and wishful thinking.
(I may still protest if the BPFK tries to effect a change that I, personally, find too difficult to learn, but I don't expect such objections to carry much force.)
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