On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 7:20:54 PM UTC-4, Dustin Lacewell wrote:
TR NS,
This is the unifying reason the FAR MAJORITY of conlangs die! Accept this at face value!
I'd be concerned that a language that did not achieve its stated goals might also suffer the same fate. Regardless I will take it at face value, and conclude Lojban has reached a type of impasse, perhaps inevitable.
Clearly there are two camps of thought: There are those, like yourself, who wish to see the language frozen, unassailable from all but minor adjustments, wanting to get on with *using* the language, and see the language's death in any further modification. Then there are those who see a language that has not yet reached it's fruition --still in need of work, minor or significant, and in seeing those "holes", see a dead language in one that is no longer evolving.
There is no reconciliation of these two views. The only solution is a fork.