From Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de Thu Jul 19 00:05:07 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 19 Jul 2001 07:05:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 63642 invoked from network); 19 Jul 2001 07:05:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 19 Jul 2001 07:05:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO b05.egroups.com) (10.1.2.184) by mta1 with SMTP; 19 Jul 2001 07:05:06 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de Received: from [10.1.10.109] by b05.egroups.com with NNFMP; 19 Jul 2001 07:05:05 -0000 Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 07:05:00 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Editorial comment Message-ID: <9j60qs+mems@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Length: 1691 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 62.104.218.64 From: "A.W.T." --- In lojban@y..., Nick NICHOLAS wrote: > ... and if I want Espreranto, I know where to find it.=20 .i tugni (Never was too interested in Esperanto - yet, it works expressing = =3D=0D yourself!) > I am not saying the language should still be tinkered with, and people > know well my commitment to stability for a language community to prosper.= =3D=0D > What I am saying is that there can be no baseline-like stability without = =3D=0D a > fuller specification of the language than we have. Because the gaps still= =3D=0D > being found, in many instances, involve not stylistic preference but core= =3D=0D > grammar issues, this specification has to be prescriptive in those > instances rather than thrown over to > usage. And my confidence that we will see such a specification any > time soon has been eroded. (I have heard nothing about the Dictionary > since I made my proposals in April, for example.) Being prescriptive, > this is not something that can be solved by a collaborative dictionary > effort --- laudable though that proposal is; this is something that *has*= =3D=0D > to come out of Lojban Central. I can't but wholly agree. This has been my concern and "pain" since quite s= =3D=0D ome time: while Lojban being impressingly elaborated in=20 many fields, there still *are* gaps IMHO *essential* for daily (not at all = =3D=0D sophisticated!) use of the language. And I'm more than=20 grateful this concern being expressed by someone much more competent than m= =3D=0D y poorself! aolung *=AF=BFs www.fa-kuan.muc.de Traces of Butterflies' Dreams - ***/*=99 Tieh Meng Hen (www.fa-kuan.muc.de/SPUREN.RXML) My Poetry (www.fa-kuan.muc.de/MYPOEMS.RXML) A.W. Tueting Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de =BAw*=CD=BA}=95=DF*=AC=20