From jimc@MATH.UCLA.EDU Tue Sep 24 16:38:26 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_1_3); 24 Sep 2002 23:38:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 1088 invoked from network); 24 Sep 2002 23:38:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m9.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 24 Sep 2002 23:38:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Sep 2002 23:38:24 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 17tzIL-0003rm-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:40:45 -0700 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17tzHo-0003rQ-00; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:40:12 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:40:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bodhi.math.ucla.edu ([128.97.4.253]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17tzHl-0003rH-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:40:09 -0700 Received: from localhost (bodhi.math.ucla.edu [128.97.4.253]) by bodhi.math.ucla.edu (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g8ONbkdO012111; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:37:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:37:45 -0700 (PDT) To: Subject: [lojban] Re: Ygyde language is better than Lojban In-Reply-To: <20020924221745.GW22212@digitalkingdom.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-archive-position: 1572 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jimc@math.ucla.edu Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list From: Jim Carter Reply-To: jimc@math.ucla.edu X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=810565 On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 12:05:39AM +0200, Andrew Nowicki wrote: > > Ygyde conlang is easy to pronounce, easy to > ... > > That's nice. > > > Description of the Ygyde language is posted at: > > http://www.medianet.pl/~andrew/ygyde/ygyde.htm > > Ummm, you wouldn't believe how bad that page looks in Opera. Come on, I didn't have any trouble with it using Opera 6.02 for Linux. The page design is simple but it gets the job done. (A few of my own preferences: use rather than for Ygyde text; the bold face is too heavy. A DTD and elements giving the author's name, copyright, etc. would be nice in the . Legally I would be happier with a copyright and a very broad license. For the grammar explanation I would have used a
or possibly a table; and definitely a table for the dictionary of compound words. The color chart came out reasonable looking.) There are a lot of interesting concepts in Ygyde, but the Lojban list is not the right forum to discuss them. It's tempting to think of modifying Lojban to use the best of Nowicki's work, but Lojban is oriented to using the language and gaining recruits, for which stability is important. I hope to not see a flood of "suppose Lojban did it this way..." proposals. James F. Carter Voice 310 825 2897 FAX 310 206 6673 UCLA-Mathnet; 6115 MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA, USA 90095-1555 Email: jimc@math.ucla.edu http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc (q.v. for PGP key)