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Re: [lojban] Re: The Mad Proposals

Earlier this year, when I was working on criteria for a perfect loglang with constant references to the existing specimens, one of the few flaws in Lojban that emerged early in the study was the proliferation of connectives.  For almost all the cases except the sentential ones (basic in logic, whatever may be the case in Lojban) there were clearer ways of handling the situation (some of them remarkably rare, by the way) than using a new connective.  Some were even shorter.  To be sure, these efficiencies were in a system being built from scratch, without the inertia of 20 years of development, but most look to be adaptable to existing Lojban with some inevitable backward loss.

From: MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@gmail.com>
To: lojban@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: The Mad Proposals

I came across it via la gleki on Facebook, but I couldn't figure out how to vote on it in Google Plus or Groups or wherever it is.  

mu'o mi'e la stevon



On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 1:10 PM, selpa'i <seladwa@gmx.de> wrote:
la .stivos. cu cusku di'e

I whole-heartedly support this change. I'm not a regular user of Lojban,
though.

May I ask what motivated you to say that just then? Did you just randomly run into this proposal now or does this have to do with the recent thread about TAG connectives? I'm just wondering if this is coincidence. :)

Lately, there has been more and more talk of GIJA (which it's usually referred to by some, rather than "Mad Proposal", since, of course, its proponents don't find it at all mad!). xorxes' "speak up now!" call might finally be answered, albeit belatedly (20 years!).

I wonder how many more people are silently in favor of GIJA. My estimate right now is that there are (at least) 7 people in favor, almost all of which use Lojban regularly.

mu'o mi'e la selpa'i


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