jboske = "lojbanology" (& also, the name of a mailing list (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske) exclusively for technical discussions about Lojban Description).

Lojbanology

About jboske

• jboske whitepapers
• Some principles pertaining to the quasiprescriptive function of jboske
• Academy de Lojban
• Tinkering with Lojban Description — nu stika la lojban.
• Semantic import of baseline-generated syntactic structures

Documenting standard but underdocumented features

• Rearranging arguments without using FA
• tags as connectives
• List of expository materials needed to augment Woldy (List of underdocumented but established features for which teaching materials are needed)
• lo'e: Squinting
• Magic Words
• Phonology
• Grammatical similarity of Q codes and UI/COI
• Quantifiers

Stuff that is not necessarily official and not necessarily baseline-violating

Rationale for creating Opinionated Gripes page

• Opinionated Gripes: Mistakes in gismu lists
• Proposed interpretive conventions
• Experimental gismu
  • Rant: Against Experimental Gismu
• Stuff to be removed from the language
• Bloated Gismu Syndrome
• the Upsidedown Gismu Syndrome
• Experimental cmavo
  • Discussion of experimental cmavo in general
  • Catalogue of currently proposed experimental cmavo
  • Experimental gadri
  • Experimental anaphorics
  • Experimental FA
  • Obsolete experimental cmavo
  • Currently used experimental cmavo
  • Criteria for evaluating experimental cmavo
• An essay on gadri
• Robin's gadri Proposal
• Gadri History
• Intensions
• species
• default quantifiers
• Alternate Orthographies
• Punctuation
• lerfu schemes
• Leading Hyphen Convention
• Relative Clauses and Phrases
• plurals
• Powell's Principle of Non-Gluteality

Slight changes proposals

• resequencing sumti
• Opinionated Gripes: gismu definitions slight change proposals
  • Opinionated Gripes: Set places in gismu
  • Redo the words
  • Opinionated Gripes: jbovlaste gismu keywords
  • Approved gismu Alterations

Radical changes proposals

Pertaining to Lojban-as-someone-might-wish-it-to-have-been

• Stuff that would require a baseline change. Stuff here does not in itself necessarily aim to change the baseline. It notes what sort of changes might be desirable if the baseline were to change. The baseline may be reviewed at some point in the future, if certain highly stringent conditions are met, and an accumulation of jboske on this topic could inform that process.
  • Practicable syntax changes
    • Allow forethought sumti tail connection
    • Allow BAI phrase to modify tense markers
    • Allow tu'e...tu'u phrases as subsentences
    • Bridi to sumti converter
    • Internal grammar of tags
    • Move NAI to CAI
    • Reduction of the number of selma'o
  • Exploiting the preparser
    • rant about "exploiting the preparser"
  • SE ka
• Opinionated Gripes: Radical gismu change proposals
  • gism
  • Wouldn't it have been nice if all gismu had 4 and only 4 arguments so we could imagine them as solid tetrahedrons in space
• Cmavo that are a ghastly waste of precious monosyllabic cmavo space
• Rant: e'o and e'u are not commands
• catalogue of baseline violations (either in usage or in proposals not flagged as non-baseline conformant)
• Wouldn't it have been nice...
  • if alphabetical order of numbers matched numerical order...
  • if Lojban Description had had some funny sounds and phooey
  • see CouldaBeenRafsi
  • if the rule about no la or lai or doi in cmene didn't exist
  • ((if Lojban Description had borrowed certain neat features from Loglan and -gua!spi))

New LoCCan