jboske

jboske = "lojbanology" (& also, the name of a mailing list exclusively for technical discussions about Lojban).

Lojbanology

About jboske

• jboske whitepapers
• Some principles pertaining to the quasiprescriptive function of jboske

• Academy de Lojban
• Tinkering with Lojban -- nu stika la lojban.

• Semantic import of baseline-generated syntactic structures

Documenting standard but underdocumented features

• Philosophy behind Lojban, including "bear goo", lo'e, 4th relativistic tense etc.
• List of expository materials needed to augment Woldy (List of underdocumented but established features for which teaching materials are needed)
• lo'e: Squinting

• Rearranging arguments without using FA
• tags as connectives

• Magic Words
• Phonology

• Grammatical similarity of Q codes and UI/COI
• Quantifiers

Semantics

• Semantic classes of verbs by la gleki
• Semantic categorization of gismu

Stuff that is not baseline-violating at all

• Experimental gismu
  • Rant: Against Experimental Gismu
  • Some hate certain Lojban constructions and suggest using Loglan primitives instead as a replacement. See Borrowing from Loglan
• Stuff to be removed from the language
• Joke gismu
• Bloated Gismu Syndrome
  • See also BPFK Section: gismu Issues, section "Set Places"
• the Upsidedown Gismu Syndrome
• resequencing sumti
• Experimental cmavo
  • Discussion of experimental cmavo in general
  • Catalogue of currently proposed experimental cmavo
  • BPFK Section: New cmavo Proposals
  • experimental gadri
  • Experimental anaphorics
  • Experimental FA
  • Obsolete experimental cmavo
  • Currently used experimental cmavo
  • Criteria for evaluating experimental cmavo

Stuff that is not necessarily official and not necessarily baseline-violating

Rationale for creating Opinionated Gripes page

jboske discussion

• BPFK Section: gismu Issues, section "Unapproved"
  • BPFK Section: gismu Issues, section "jbovlaste gismu Keywords"
  • Approved gismu Alterations
  • BPFK gismu Proposal: kanpe
  • BPFK gismu Proposal: gletu
  • BPFK gismu Proposal: mabla and zabna
• Proposed interpretive conventions
• An essay on gadri
• Robin's gadri proposal
• Gadri History
• Intensions
• species
• default quantifiers
• Alternate Orthographies
• Punctuation
• lerfu schemes
• Leading Hyphen Convention
• Relative Clauses and Phrases
• plurals
• Powell's Principle of Non-Gluteality

Baseline-violating proposals

Pertaining to Lojban-as-someone-might-wish-it-to-have-been

• Stuff that would require a baseline change. Stuff here does not in itself necessarily aim to change the baseline. It notes what sort of changes might be desirable if the baseline were to change. The baseline may be reviewed at some point in the future, if certain highly stringent conditions are met, and an accumulation of jboske on this topic could inform that process.
  • Practicable syntax changes
    • Allow forethought sumti tail connection
    • Allow BAI phrase to modify tense markers
    • Allow tu'e...tu'u phrases as subsentences
    • Bridi to sumti converter
    • Internal grammar of tags
    • Move NAI to CAI
    • Reduction of the number of selma'o
  • Exploiting the preparser
    • Rant about "exploiting the preparser"
  • SE ka
• BPFK Section: gismu Issues, section "Other Issues"
  • gism
  • Redo the words
  • BPFK gismu Section: Problems With ka
  • BPFK gismu Section: Parenthetical Remarks in Brivla Definitions
  • BPFK gismu Section: Complete vs. Incomplete Specifications
  • Wouldn't it have been nice if all ''gismu'' had 4 and only 4 arguments so we could imagine them as solid tetrahedrons in space
• cmavo that are a ghastly waste of precious monosyllabic cmavo space
• Rant: e'o and e'u are not commands
• catalogue of baseline violations (either in usage or in proposals not flagged as non-baseline conformant)
• Wouldn't it have been nice...
  • if alphabetical order of numbers matched numerical order...
  • if Lojban had had some funny sounds and phooey
  • see CouldaBeenRafsi
  • if the rule about no la or lai or doi in cmene didn't exist
  • if Lojban had borrowed certain neat features from Loglan and gua\spi

loglangs - other logical languages

Here we are approaching languages distinct from Lojban.