Re: Part 1 Re: Whatever happened to vulcan-linguistics + question
Whittaker, Pat 
Wed, 27 Jan 99 11:12:00 M


I like the idea of the proposal group.  I vote "a" (yes).

Selek
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From: owner-vulcan-linguistics
To: vulcan-linguistics
Subject: Re: Part 1 Re: Whatever happened to vulcan-linguistics + question
Date: Tuesday, 26 January, 1999 9:06PM

>From: "Saul Epstein" <sepstein*jccc,net>

Saul wrote:
>This is a fairly serious impediment to the development of the
>language. I realize that work can be and has been done on elaboration
>of the grammar without any more extensive a lexicon than we have, but
>when it comes time to _use_ that grammar, we'll need words to plug in
>to the structures.
>
>I'd like to propose the following, just for consideration. Let's
>combine all the piecemeal additions that have been put forward with a
>re-transcribed and clarified version of our source lexicon. (Just the
>more "word-like" additions by the way. All our various affix particles
>probably belong in any finished lexicon, but they're so dependent on
>the way the grammar turns out that I'd like to wait.)
>
>We can label this a draft of a second edition of the lexicon, and work
>on adding words generated by Rob's program, and borrowings from OHV.
>It would remain a draft until such time as Marketa has a chance to
>review and approve some version as the definitive second edition.
>
>What do others think?
>

I think it very appropriate that Modern Vulcan take words from OHV,
because that is our theoretical claim about the language; that it is the
same language as OHV, much the same relationship between modern english
and Old English.  Besides, this makes whatever commentary that is
written about the two languages more accurate as well.

The proposed proposal sounds good to me.  Lets do this.

Another less related thought that is more related to government, but
belongs on this list nevertheless, is whether we should have a formal
way of making a proposal.  We do it casually, but no formalities have
been established AFAIK.

In Vulcan government there is supposed to be a proposal group and an
expunging group.  While an expunging group would have little to no use
here, I think a proposal group would.  Say, have the whole list be
members of the group and each cast a vote on an item someone wishes to
add to the master-proposal we submit to Marketa for approval.  Think of
it like the legislative branch handing a bill to the president (spoken
in US government terms)

Give me your thoughts?
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