Kevin Smith | Re: [europidgin] Re: Personal note from George

• Autor: Kevin Smith (“kevinbsmith”)
• Tema: Re: [europidgin] Re: Personal note from George
• Data: 2002-09-18 02:47
• Mesaje: 120 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 14:19, europidgin wrote:
> Like you I think, that usefulness and ease of use are
> more important than perfect logic.

Me too, although I think that logic is often useful and easy.

> And I'll go a little further. I believe that ease of
> learning can be in conflict with ease of use.

I also agree with this. And, personally, I would rather focus on ease of
learning first. Until we are actually using a language on a daily basis,
we don't really know what parts will be frustrating. So, I would rather
make it dead simple to learn, get lots of people using it, and then find
out where people choose natural shortcuts.

> I don't see the EuroPidgin Group as "my baby".

I would like to commend both Bjorn and George for their patience and
willingness to listen to all kinds of suggestions. They both seem
genuinely open to possible improvements, and that seems somewhat rare in
the IAL community. Thanks guys!

> But I see a problem we have to do something about in the
> near future. I'm not going to be the dictator in this group.
> We need to find a way to make decisions.

This is one of the problems with the Glosa community. Personally, I
think you either need to be the dictator, or select a small group of
people who _will decide_ on the language, based on input from everyone
else. Otherwise, I fear the language will never stablize.

> And lastly, of course there is a risk that we kill the
> goal by endless discussions. But so far I think we have
> had some good discussion and also made some progress too.

I agree. IF the goal is to take LFN as it is, then the time for
discussion is over. But if the goal is to simplify LFN, then a few weeks
of debate would be a healthy start.

Kevin