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Re: [lojban] [lojban-announcements] Essay on the future of Lojban, with a simple poll for the community.
Bob LeChevalier, On 08/04/2010 17:24:
And Rosta wrote:
One can imagine certain sensible rules of thumb applying, such as "If
a given improvement would result in nontrivial amounts of relearning,
then it is appropriate for Logban3 but not for Lojban". (Better change
that to "If a given improvement would result in nontrivial amounts of
relearning, then it is appropriate for Logban3 but not for Lojban,
*unless it is a fix for something that is broken*" -- I'm thinking of
the pre-xorlo gadri system, the extraordinarily intense attempts to
fix which led to the establishment of the BPFK and its completely
irreconcilable various goals.
!!!???
The gadri system had absolutely nothing to do with the establishment of
the byfy. It never even entered my mind.
The attempts to deal with gadri were primarily undertaken by the byfy
under Nick's leadership, and I cannot fault his efforts at leadership on
that issue.
It was my failure to get a revised cmavo list (compatible with CLL) and
the ensuing dictionary done despite many promises over many years that
made byfy necessary. The job needed to be delegated out of my hands to
a committee, while preserving all the good aspects that my prior role
(which was too much akin to benevolent dictator before Cowan, and was at
risk of becoming so again when he indicated burnout after CLL was done).
My possibly inaccurate recollection of my possibly inaccurate impression at the time is that Nick returned to Lojban after an absence of some years, and he was temperamentally a Conservative but also had enough linguistic nous to understand the Revisionists' arguments that the Lojban specification was massively incomplete and in some respects broken, most devastatingly in the gadri system (given its centrality to the language). (At the time Nick first went Lojban-inactive, the prevailing view was that CLL was going to be pretty much the final word on the specification of Lojban (lacking only the dictionary to be complete). Over the next few years the delusionality of that view became clear to those capable of understanding the issues.) On behalf of the board, Nick then announced the BPFK and led it. My impression at the time was that he was the moving force behind the BPFK, and its constitution did seem redolent of his approach to Lojban and linguistics, and that the Board b
acked him as a trusty Conservative with expertise in linguistics.
--And.
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