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Re: [lojban] Balningau: The Great Update
On 5/25/2014 2:29 PM, Dustin Lacewell wrote:
Did you just invoke your own death to bolster your position?
No. I invoked my own death to indicate my long term irrelevancy.
Unlike you, I have learned some humility.
Bob. We want to fix some things in the language within a realistic
timeframe as to benefit from them without spending years doing uselessly
tautological work to reflect in materials that we will shortly after
rewrite, reflect a very out of date version of the language. How is it
possible that we're talking about all these odd topics that don't seem
to connect with solving that problem?
We don't agree on "the problem".
Its like, the problem is simple, the solution is simple, and lots of
people agree.
Your evidence as to "lots" is lacking.
If you stop this odd debate of trying to make us out to be
some sort of insignificant traitors
Stop with insignificant, and that will be fine.
That improving the prescription more immediately to reflect modern
usage, so that we can better go on teaching and advocating the language,
is even contentious is boring. The debate is tired and apparently the
arguments have become very weak. And odd. You made some odd arguments
Bob. That don't really address the problem at all.
I'm not trying to address YOUR problem.
And if my arguments are ill-thought out, then perhaps my health
problems, and family matters that are much more important to me than
your argument take precedence.
You need to start
speaking to realistic and practical short term solutions for those out
there teaching and using the language.
Says who?
My job is defined in the LLG Bylaws, as interpreted by the Members and
Directors.
If THEY decide to change course, then I will either change course or not
continue as President.
Because of course we
don't exist, and probably don't even speak "Lojban" as it could be
officially called anyway right?
I have no idea what you speak, or whether it would be mutually
intelligible with something I speak.
Why are we not the first group to come along and suggest such
editorializing of the language? Its because the language does not exist
as just some mental object.
Take that up with a philosopher of language. I suspect that s/he would
disagree. But I'm not much of a philosopher.
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