greetings fellow academicians,

[Randall Holmes]

could I canvass for votes on the proposal to mark predunits in serial names with CI

(Proposal 8, which is formally mine as I actually finally submitted it, but is really a suggestion of John's)?  I believe there is already a majority in favor (myself, Emerson, and

John); it eliminates the need for multiple pause phonemes and makes things like 

<la Djan, blanu> safely sentences again (since John the Blue is <la Djan, ci blanu>).

Comments on all the other stuff I have posted are very welcome, but I am very aware that there is a lot of it and we do have non-Loglandical lives :-)   There is an actual reason (not a happy one) that I am diligently working on Loglan:  I have an ugly medical diagnosis (prostate cancer) and am keeping myself distracted until I have major surgery on April 29th (which has a very good chance of completely removing the problem).  Intellectual busy-ness is what I find most effectively distracting, so I am doing lots of mathematical research and lots of Loglan!

So...some conversation about the products of my diligence would be welcome for more reasons than one :-)

I am currently about to post a version of the agenda document which is augmented with references back to NB3:  I have been reading NB3 and adding comments inspired by it in the right places, and will soon be doing the same with L1.

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Sincerely, Randall Holmes

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[Randall Holmes]

The situation I would like to get to is one in which I can view my PEG (suitably revised if revisions are found necessary in our deliberations) as the official parser.  This is not because I want to dictate changes to the language (in fact, as I am finding in 

analyzing the corpus in NB3, and as I already knew, my parser hews quite close to the current official version of the language in practice) and certainly not because I do not see the need for further meditation on changes, but because I want an official parser which is transparent in its structure (mine is at least more so than LIP) and so easily maintained.

I'm aware that this requires deliberation, since I have given a complete definition of the phonology which needs to be checked

over for accuracy (with some changes, notably to names), formal definitions of all the word classes (again with some changes,

though my definitions seem to work most of the time, and it must be noted that on the lexical level LIP is frankly buggy),

and finally a definition of the grammar which does include some modifications.  Digesting all of this could take quite a while, and could be quite entertaining to work through!  This is a target of mine, not something that I expect to happen next week.

[Randall Holmes]

Members please note that if you have proposals, they will be inserted in appropriate places.  This is an overall agenda document, not my agenda document; I just happen to be generating a huge amount of text at the moment.