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Re: [lojban] Re: Lojban's leadership and how I don't give a shit about it



coi rodo

First of all, I don't have a problem with selpa'i
doing administrational work, but I'm still not sure what
is actually proposed here - and I believe it's partly unclear
to the proposer as well.

I believe Jonathan points out the more basic
problem behind this "election": When you talk about
"merging changes officially", do you want to lift the syntax freeze?
Here, I agree with Jonathan. Neither Robin nor selpa'i would be allowed
to do that to the best of my knowledge.

The freeze is undone the moment it's clear what every cmavo available
in the language _as is_ means in current usage - which has to be accepted
by "standard" camxes at least. Yes, I mean _current_ usage - selpa'i himself
seemed to misunderstand this when I met him last year.
This is not about documenting something outdated for ages. 
It's about documenting the language in official syntax,
as used by todays community.

However, I do see a problem to decide whether the documentation is complete.
I believe lorxus raised this question months ago:
It looks like only "Contact Spatial FAhA3" (locked for ages by Arnt Johansen?)
and "Termsets CEhE NUhI NUhU PEhE" have not been checkpointed.
What does "TOC - Impact" mean in the section "Logical Connectives"?
Are all the other sections considered to be complete? Do they have to be
"checkpointed" again?
Neither of these are my area of expertise, so I can't really contribute.
But given that there are people around who can "rap in lojban", I still don't
understand why they propose lots of changes in syntax, but are unable to raise
guided discussions on what these last few words mean.

Back to the problem: After writing documentation for words to the byfy pages,
when/how/by whom will they be accepted officially?


mi'e la .van. mu'o

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