Re: [lojban] Mini-rant: gismu place consistency

[vitci'i <celestialcognition@gmail.com>]

On 12/16/2011 01:46 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 01:43:31PM -0600, vitci'i wrote:
>> On 12/16/2011 01:25 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>>> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 01:21:40PM -0600, vitci'i wrote:
>>>> On 12/16/2011 01:17 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> If I had it to do over again, every gismu with an agent place
>>>>> would have it as the first place.  Every gismu with an
>>>>> audience or second agent of any type would have it as the
>>>>> second place. There would probably be several other
>>>>> regularities as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been saying {manci} and {melbi} to my babies *a lot*, and
>>>>> I *still* have trouble remembering that it's {do melbi mi} and
>>>>> {mi manci do}.  GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps there should be a central repository of things we'd
>>>> like to fix when the next major version of lojban occurs.
>>>> (There almost certainly will be one eventually if the language
>>>> lasts long enough. Maybe it'll be in ten years, maybe a
>>>> hundred, but it *will* need a major update *eventually*.)
>>>
>>> I'm really hoping to avoid that.  But I think there's at least
>>> one page on the wiki; search for loccan maybe?
>>
>> Really? You want -tel- to still belong to {stela} instead of {te}
>> in the year 2200? When we finally clone a velociraptor, do you
>> want to have to ask {na'e gledji cinse fi ma lo xadni} because we
>> don't have a gismu for biological sex? When the Sun burns out and
>> you're visiting your grandkids-xiso'i in Andromeda, do you still
>> want *two different short rafsi* allocated to *Antarctica*?
> 
> LOL.
> 
> All those things can be fixed incrementally, was my point.

I'm not convinced that *all* bugs can be fixed by minor updates, but okay.

In that case, perhaps there should exist some sort of bug tracker for
Lojban.

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