From pycyn@aol.com Sat Oct 05 14:24:09 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_2_0); 5 Oct 2002 21:24:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 92449 invoked from network); 5 Oct 2002 21:24:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 5 Oct 2002 21:24:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-d02.mx.aol.com) (205.188.157.34) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 Oct 2002 21:24:09 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-d02.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.13.) id r.13.12cd35b7 (4230) for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 17:24:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <13.12cd35b7.2ad0b275@aol.com> Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 17:24:05 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] prescription & description (was: RE: Re: a new kind of fundament... To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_13.12cd35b7.2ad0b275_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 10509 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=2455001 X-Yahoo-Profile: kaliputra --part1_13.12cd35b7.2ad0b275_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My position continues to be that unless you can consistently produce sentences that pass the parser and -- on the basis of the parse -- say pretty much what you intended them to, you have no right to be deviant other than the inalienable right to screw up. Once you are a mature Lojban speaker/writer and no longer a child learning the language, then, hey, knock your lights out! Be James Joyce in one of his merrier moments, play with Lojban as you do with your native tongue(s). And expect people to heed what you do. Before then, however, the correct response to deviance is "Sorry, Junior, you do not yet have that quite right." And your response to that is not to start making a case that it is too right (face screwed up -- a different sense, heels dug in and all), but to say "Oh, please tell me how to do it correctly." Directed to those who can (who have not only to do but to teach as well). --part1_13.12cd35b7.2ad0b275_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My position continues to be that unless you can consistently produce sentences that pass the parser and -- on the basis of the parse -- say pretty much what you intended them to, you have no right to be deviant other than the inalienable right to screw up. Once you are a mature Lojban speaker/writer and no longer a child learning the language, then, hey, knock your lights out! Be James Joyce in one of his merrier moments, play with Lojban as you do with your native tongue(s). And expect people to heed what you do. Before then, however, the correct response to deviance is "Sorry, Junior, you do not yet have that quite right." And your response to that is not to start making a case that it is too right (face screwed up -- a different sense, heels dug in and all), but to say "Oh, please tell me how to do it correctly." Directed to those who can (who have not only to do but to teach as well). --part1_13.12cd35b7.2ad0b275_boundary--