From a.rosta@lycos.co.uk Wed Oct 09 19:10:04 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@lycos.co.uk X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_2_0); 10 Oct 2002 02:10:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 11617 invoked from network); 10 Oct 2002 02:08:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 10 Oct 2002 02:08:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailbox-14.st1.spray.net) (212.78.202.114) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Oct 2002 02:08:31 -0000 Received: from oemcomputer (host213-121-68-246.surfport24.v21.co.uk [213.121.68.246]) by mailbox-14.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE595499EE for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 04:08:25 +0200 (DST) To: Subject: if this be error and vpon me provd (was: RE: Re: [Announcement] The Alice Translation Has Moved And Changed Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 03:10:05 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20021009132729.00a99020@pop.east.cox.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=122260811 X-Yahoo-Profile: andjamin Lojbab: > As for the question of errors, if it violates the baseline, then by > definition it IS an error, assuming that the baseline has any meaning > whatsoever. It is not an error if witting and deliberate. We don't say that, say, the language of Finnegans Wake errs, even if it is ungrammatical. > So it sounds like you are explicitly advocating public dialectization of > the language even on issues where there is a clear baseline position if you > think that position to be wrong, which sounds like out-and-out rejection > that the baseline has any meaning? He wasn't, but it is the only solution. --And. ps The relatively meaningless subject heading is a mere cowanesque caprice.