"grammar changes" explanation

[Logical Language Group <cbmvax!uunet!grebyn.com!lojbab>]

A few people are posting with reference to grammar changes 1-21.  Briefly
explaining to most of you, this refers to the draft set of mostly minor b
baseline changes that are being planned for adoption prior to the first book
publication.  Most of these are little glitches that were noticed by Cowan in
writing "Imaginary Journeys" which came out with JL16, and others in his
set of papers, and only rarely affect anything that has actually been written
in the language.

With one exception.  There is a proposal responding to and dealing with
Colin Fine's long paper on relative clauses.  This will{ affect few things
that have been written in the language but will affect somewhat the
philosophy of how we teach relative clauses and will have some likely
effect on the language evolution in the future.

These are change proposals and may not be adopted.  Indeed, change #21 seems
to have a fairly solid group opposed to it, which is sufficent to veto most
changes.

I am willing to provide copies of the change proposals to anyone who hasn't
gotten them, and wishes to comment on them.  A warning that they are written
VERY technically at this stage, and many will require an abilaity to read the
BNF and/or YACC grammars in order to understand them.

Since the bulk of the change proposals appear to have passed first screening,
this constitutes the public invitation for people who want to do so to become
involved in the baseline review process.

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lojbab                                                      lojbab@grebyn.com
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