On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:22 PM, TR NS <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:But how many decades are we to wait for that to happen?The length of time it will take to complete the documentation of the baseline is entirely dependent on the number of hours pre annum spent on doing the work of the documentation.And can it actually ever be complete?Yes. It very nearly is.As of this writing, the cmavo of selma'o
BAI1 BAI2 BAI3 BAI4 BAI5 BAI6 FAhA1 FAhA3 FAhA4 FEhE MOhI VA VEhA VIhA ZEhA ZI ZAhO BY1 BY2 BY* BOI BU FOI LAU TEI BAhE ZEI XI JOI LA LE (except lo'e & le'e) KOhA7 FAhO NIhO I MAI TUhE TUhU ZOhU LU LOhU LEhU LIhU ZO ZOI and Y are fully documented and voted on,
CUhE PU KI TAhE ROI FIhO FEhU BIhI GAhO MOI ME MEhU KOhA4 KOhA5 and KOhA6 are currently in the voting stage,
FAhA2 CAhA PA1 PA2 PA3 PA4 PA5 MEX BIhE FUhA JOhI KUhE MAhO MOhE NAhU NIhE NUhA PEhO TEhU VEI VEhO SEI: ti'o VUhU0 VUhU1 VUhU2 VUhU3 VUhU4 A GA GIhA GUhA GI JA NA NAhE NAI lo'e and le'e KOhA1 BO CO CU KE KEhE KU VAU KOhA2 KOhA3 GOhA DAhO RAhO SOI UI1realis UI1irrealis BE BEI BEhO FA JAI SE NU1 NOI GEhU KUhO VUhO GOI and ZIhE have been documented at least minimally (possibly ready for voting), with
SEI SEhU TO TOI UI2 UI3 UI3a UI3c UI6 UI3b UI4 UI7 FUhE FUhO UI5 CAI COI DOI DOhU LAhE LUhU LI LOhO NU KEI KOhA8 SI SA SU ZOI CEhE NUhI NUhU PEhE and CEI being the few left in dire need of documentation work.
Beyond the above, all the valsi have been documented excepting lujvo and fu'ivla which don't need to be for the baseline to be complete. By a completely rough gut estimate, I'd say that amount to >75% of the language being finished documented, most of that being approved or in the process of approval, and another ~15% of the language being at least partially documented.
And doesn't the whole notion of "completion" work against the notion of change?No, because we're not talking about completion of the language, i.e. everything is as good as it can be and no changes can or "need" to occur. We're talking about completion of the documentation of the language /as it is now/, the thing that would be changed by future proposals. After all, it's rather difficult to mark changes if you don't know the starting point. How can one know the Δ°C required to turn a mass of H2O into ice if the current temperature is unknown? How can one know the distance to Berlin if the current location is unknown?
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