Re: Con-prescriptivism

Nik Taylor scripsit:

> The recent flameskirmish (I don't think it's quite a *war*, more like a
> brief skirmish) around prescriptivism, etc., as well as a joking remark
> by someone about having a "haughty" register in conlangs got me to
> thinking about conprescriptivism.
Well, Lojban has a prescriptive machine parser, does that count?

As for the haughty register, Lojban has that too: the word "gai"
(negative "gainai") expresses the speaker's superiority to the referent
of the preceding word.  If there is no preceding word, it expresses
the speaker's superiority to things in general.  Like most Lojban
expressive words, it comes in three degrees of positive intensity,
three degrees of negative intensity, and neutral intensity.

--
John Cowan                                      cowan@ccil.org
                e'osai ko sarji la lojban.