Re: New project
Saul Epstein 
Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:29:46 -0600

At 07:26 PM 3/21/99 -0500, MDriest wrote:


>Yes, I must admit I lost track a bit. I have a proposal.
>- Please someone make one document of all the changes.
>- Send it over the list.
>- We accept all changes provisionally.
>
>- We then take the basic grammar and the changes as a set.
>- We make up dozens of sentences and start translating. We
>will automatically see which modifications work well and
>which don't. It will give us a nice way to finalise the
>grammar.

I should probably explain what's been going on with regard to the
grammar. Some time back, it seemed to me that enough had been proposed
to make a provisional 2nd draft feasible. I thought it held together
well enough that only a clear statement of all the parts would be
necessary, and set about composing it. I still think that would have
worked: the flaw was that if I were to become busy with other things,
progress would grind to a halt. Which is exactly what happened.

I'll try to do now what I should have done at the start: just gather
everything together and present it here, as Martin so practically
suggests. I'll probably do it in pieces, still, so the messages are
smaller and can start spreading sooner.

I can't promise this will be pretty. If anything, it's a mess. ;-,

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