torch

I had a huge flame of jboske ready to send last night. I didn't. I send 
this now, though.

A Lojban which contains {lo} = Kind is so incommensurable with CLL, and 
so manifestly against the entire spirit of the language (which is 
founded on Quine and not Montague), that its acceptance will force me 
to cut ties with the language. I will not relearn {lo}, and I will not 
ask anyone else to; this is where I draw the line.

Jorge started that particular thread by saying it was a revisionist 
fantasy, and I need not read it. I wish And had stuck to that. And this 
is why I did not want BPFK discussions to happen on jboske as it 
stands. I should not even have to entertain consideration of change so 
disruptive.

I am supposed to wade through 500 K of this produced over just five 
days, with no sign of letup. Frankly, I no longer see the point of any 
of this --- or of starting to have my sleep, day job and research start 
suffering again for this. And, if you can't see by now that this is the 
kind of proposal that *should not be made at all to BFPK*, then go 
ahead and make it. But you have my veto.

--
Dr Nick Nicholas, French & Italian, University of Melbourne, Australia.
http://www.opoudjis.net [email protected]
"Most Byzantine historians felt they knew enough to use the optatives
correctly; some of them were right." --- Harry Turtledove.