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Re: [lojban] Balningau: The Great Update
On 5/24/2014 12:05 PM, 'John E Clifford' via lojban wrote:
Dang it, Bob, you just undid your bit of good! You have again saddled
BPFK with the paradoxical task of now documenting a language that ceased
to exist in 1997 (if even then).
Actually, I just stated it poorly. But my new if longwinded version may
not be more satisfactory - just more accurate
The sensible approach (and what I think was actually intended --
certainly after it became clear that the baselining was not going to be
done in a short time)
By the time that could become clear, things were in such a muddle that
almost no one was thinking about the final goal, only about winning the
argument of the day. I largely dropped out of active byfy work because
I couldn't keep up with the argument of the day.
is to close a corpus (we do have a good searchable
corpus somewhere, don't we) at some date certain (tomorrow, say or June
1, 2014 anyhow) and describe that language synchronically and
diachronically, then take the synchronic as a baseline with notes on how
it evolved from CLL based on the diachronic data. This is a nice simple
field linguist job, made considerably easier by all the tools in CLL and
since.
As Nick's description referenced in my other post shows, the corpus was
intended to be a big part of the effort. But we didn't have any field
linguists (other than Nick himself), and it seemed that few really
wanted to do that part of the work (as opposed to arguing about the wat
things "should be"), so there was nothing simple about it.
All it needs is warm bodies with computers, since very little
serious thought is required.
So I thought as well. But even in my own attempts at corpus diving,
nothing proved simple. And no one talked about the problems, only about
this or that interpretation of the language design.
lojbab
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