dates, controversy, and newbies Posted by mungojelly on Tue 04 of Mar, 2008 00:27 GMT posts: 20 Use this thread to discuss the dates, controversy, and newbies page.
Posted by mungojelly on Tue 04 of Mar, 2008 00:27 GMT posts: 20 Quoting Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com>: > I could just pick a side, but given the possible influence I might > have, that feels like a big overreach. (I feel your pain, Nick.) If > usage hasn't settled anything yet (and I wouldn't think it has) then > what should I do? Teach the controversy? Even that option has the > downside of confusing and discouraging newbies, but perhaps it's not > avoidable at this stage in Lojban's development. I think that teaching the controversy could be appealing, depending on how it's spun. The truth is that Lojban is a language which is still very much under development, even though large parts of it are established. We should be very clear to ninpre about what isn't likely to change-- gismu, for instance, which every ninpre seems to have a proposal about-- and what is likely to change, and therefore might be open to their ideas. Pitch it that way: Lojban Wants YOU to get involved with these issues, and help determine the course of a living human language. mu'o mi'e la bret. To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.
