From jcowan@reutershealth.com Mon Jan 27 09:24:04 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_0); 27 Jan 2003 17:24:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 48446 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2003 17:24:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m8.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 27 Jan 2003 17:24:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.151) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Jan 2003 17:24:03 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com ([10.65.117.21]) by mail2.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA05817; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:36:59 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200301271736.MAA05817@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:24:00 -0500 Subject: Re: [lojban] za'e "postnex" To: a.rosta@lycos.co.uk (And Rosta) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:24:00 -0500 (EST) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com In-Reply-To: from "And Rosta" at Jan 27, 2003 04:54:11 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan And Rosta scripsit: > I agree that the way forward for Lojban is to have robust ways of > indicating which dialect is being used. Unmarked or unclear mixing > of dialects is what is to be avoided, because in that way meaning > becomes indeterminate. The trouble is that the conventions have to be cross-dialectal to work well. In particular, what about dialects like formal written English, which admits no other dialects save in quotation marks? (Just being difficult.) -- "No, John. I want formats that are actually John Cowan useful, rather than over-featured megaliths that http://www.ccil.org/~cowan address all questions by piling on ridiculous http://www.reutershealth.com internal links in forms which are hideously jcowan@reutershealth.com over-complex." --Simon St. Laurent on xml-dev