From xod@sixgirls.org Tue Jul 17 11:02:25 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 17 Jul 2001 18:02:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 62181 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2001 18:01:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 17 Jul 2001 18:01:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta1 with SMTP; 17 Jul 2001 18:01:28 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f6HI1RC21724 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 14:01:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 14:01:26 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: RE: [lojban] registry of experimental cmavo In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, And Rosta wrote: > Anyway, try not to get me started on this "let usage decide", "thousand > flowers bloom" baloney. I think it's not so much "let usage decide" as much as it is "let the users decide". One really needs to spend dozens or hundreds of hours thinking in Lojban, or trying to, to be able to suggest meaningful improvements. How else does one know which is really desirable from the Lojban perspective, and which are the attempted importations of English or other foreign sources? This is the difference between a language that's actually used by people, vs. entertainment for language nerds; a specialized sort of crossword puzzle. ----- We do not like And if a cat those Rs and Ds, needed a hat? Who can't resist Free enterprise more subsidies. is there for that!