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

de'i li 08 pi'e 04 pi'e 2010 la'o fy. Robin Lee Powell .fy. cusku zoi
skamyxatra.
> That's *ALWAYS* been the case.  I've *begged* people to join the
> BPFK.  Begged and begged and begged and begged.  I always get utter
> silence.
.skamyxatra

Really?  I've never encountered any of these requests.  Maybe I should go on
IRC more.  Besides, I thought that in order to join the BPFK you had to be a
member of the LLG, which required "competence" in one of several specific
fields.

Anyway, to get the ball rolling, I suppose I'll request membership.  My
qualifications are:
 - borderline autistic, obsessive-compulsive, pedantic undergraduate majoring
   in computational mathematics
 - currently working on Haskell/Perl/C libraries for manipulating Lojban words
   & text: <http://github.com/jwodder/jbobaf>
 - deep-seated & irrational dislike of cultural {gismu} and the tiki
 - knowledge of mathematical operators beyond just the high-school level stuff
   in VUhU
 - desire to rewrite the entire language specification in a highly formal &
   precise manner modeled after the ISO C99 standard.  I started this once but
   never got past the morphology section.
 - desire to rewrite the official {gismu} & {cmavo} lists *without* the
   arbitrary 100-ish-character limit on the definition fields (Have you ever
   heard of tab-separated values?), merging in definition fragments that were
   relegated to the notes fields and generally making everything more
   consistent, formal, and normative.  I once tried this as part of an attempt
   at typesetting a decent dictionary (first with XML, then with JSON) but
   never got very far.
 - desire to usurp control of the BPFK and LLG as part of my over-arching goal
   of world domination.  Time permitting, of course.

So, do you send me a funny hat, or do I have to make my own?

mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun.

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