From a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com Sat Aug 04 10:33:44 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 4 Aug 2001 17:33:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 57839 invoked from network); 4 Aug 2001 17:33:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 4 Aug 2001 17:33:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO relay3-gui.server.ntli.net) (194.168.4.200) by mta2 with SMTP; 4 Aug 2001 17:33:43 -0000 Received: from m565-mp1-cvx2b.bre.ntl.com ([62.253.86.53] helo=andrew) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with smtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 15T53h-0006Cq-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Sat, 04 Aug 2001 18:17:54 +0100 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Re: Looking down Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 18:32:51 +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: <4.3.2.7.2.20010718212543.00c6c7c0@127.0.0.1> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" Lojbab: > (My only comment on Nick's agreement with And that there needs to be > further explication of some aspects of the language, is that there remains > a baseline textbook to be written. That textbook will probably address any > and all usage issues that people feel need to be covered in print for the > baseline that are not part of the refgrammar. But no one including myself > has time to write that textbook yet, even if we have the competence (which > is questionable). Rather, I think the further explication belongs in a supplement to the Refgram, since the purpose of the reference grammar is to document the language, while the purpose of the textbook is to teach it. Hopefully the proposed new system for keeping more formal records of our on-list resolutions will help towards creating this refgram supplement. --And.