[lojban] Re: Dialects

[Lindar <lindarthebard@yahoo.com>]

> > > 2. Naming it {lindarbau}, after yourself, sounds EXTREMELY prideful to
> > me,

Dude... it was a joke.

> > Who says lindarbau is named after Lindar?  I thought it was named
> > after how if you don't use {cu} you need a long chain of terminators.
> > :D ;) :P

xD!!

Precisely.

As to the whole {cu} vs. {ku} thing, I am completely dropping it. I
think we can all settle on "we need to make sure newbies learn all of
the terminators and actually remember them, but who cares if they use
them". I'm happy with that, I think everybody else can be happy with
that. I'm not going to say one is better.

However! I will continue to argue the point that there should at least
be research done to determine if there are distinct dialects
occurring. I will agree that cu vs. ku is not a dialect in of itself,
but I do see different ways of speaking. It's not even so much a
regional thing as a generational one. It's like the difference between
how your parents sounded as kids and how you sounded as a kid.

So, chainlonglanguage vs. shortlanguage? Obviously the way I speak and
the way kribacr speaks is not the same as the way xorxes and selkik
speak. In my mind there are two broad styles of speach; shortspeak and
longspeak. I'm not saying they actually exist, but it seems to me as
if they do, and I would definitely put myself in the latter category.
I'd say kampu, kribacr, and a few others are in there as well. We
actually got rather confused when xorxes used double-cu, so maybe
there's something to examine.

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