From bpfk-list+bncCK30vq5WEL773OUEGgQc9azW@googlegroups.com Thu Oct 14 10:28:47 2010 Received: from mail-pz0-f61.google.com ([209.85.210.61]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P6Rbe-0006wF-TH; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:28:47 -0700 Received: by pzk2 with SMTP id 2sf2839890pzk.16 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:28:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:x-beenthere:received:received:received :received:received-spf:received:date:from:to:subject:message-id :mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:in-reply-to:user-agent :x-original-sender:x-original-authentication-results:reply-to :precedence:mailing-list:list-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive :sender:list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type :content-disposition; bh=IllulJgfLQMSHTrjRn+zMc32J0G3SlnhuL8EiMHsOXo=; b=wT0dz/qopiScPw9hOMZj7zsm8CFKPuXvXV0S5OVdyOzQjvKYp2tv/fheQ/Yi9MAR5c U2S7eVO3rkFjimRhEVFsMbPYx+g7zeiN/8cFq+DyUxJdvAyD5VDSPZTmdPsjNxkoVd6z x3ws8FXV0yXITExlhHsllpTd8denrOE25vcWU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:date:from:to:subject:message-id :mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:in-reply-to:user-agent :x-original-sender:x-original-authentication-results:reply-to :precedence:mailing-list:list-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive :sender:list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type :content-disposition; b=OgyDScRWuJ+fmRpaq+MAvTijyMro83wNVnvyHGPtVJ05m3oSgxIv5RmNtcxquNCHP+ z0gJjgGabLE+Ak7mKPEWnSMKQujTIJATkiv7w6DdBNSiLhgogr2NUvaB0i7/P653HZqo Oo6Eu9k0hZiUU7wW87UAAdPY8LWS3w8dcmMRM= Received: by 10.142.149.20 with SMTP id w20mr519144wfd.52.1287077310574; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:28:30 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: bpfk-list@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.142.6.9 with SMTP id 9ls823479wff.3.p; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:28:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.252.21 with SMTP id z21mr1262906wfh.21.1287077309842; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:28:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.252.21 with SMTP id z21mr1262905wfh.21.1287077309817; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:28:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org (digitalkingdom.org [173.13.139.234]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTP id s21si11707007wff.0.2010.10.14.10.28.29; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:28:29 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org designates 173.13.139.234 as permitted sender) client-ip=173.13.139.234; Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P6RbQ-0006qx-Og for bpfk-list@googlegroups.com; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:28:28 -0700 Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:28:28 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: bpfk-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [bpfk] What I'm going to do. Message-ID: <20101014172828.GV24066@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: bpfk-list@googlegroups.com References: <20101014071951.GU24066@digitalkingdom.org> <20101014074347.GA8367@nvg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20101014074347.GA8367@nvg.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Original-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org designates 173.13.139.234 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Reply-To: bpfk-list@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list bpfk-list@googlegroups.com; contact bpfk-list+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: bpfk-list@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 09:43:47AM +0200, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:19:51AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > > OK, so. The urge to just Go Fix Shit has been growing in me. I > > think there's actually not all that much to do if I can get > > people in a room for concentrated time to work on it. > > > > So, here's what's going to happen. > > Looks fine to me, except for this: > > > 6. I, some other bay area Lojbanists, and a *very* few people > > via voice chat, sit down for serious, concentrated sessions of > > Making A Dictionary, hopefully using the next generation of > > jbovlaste, which someone has written in the meantime. We > > publish the resulting dictionary. > > Language definition is basically a small number of large, > complicated pieces of work, whereas dictionary editing is a large > number of small, simple units of work. Sit-down sessions as a way > of doing dictionary work seems particularly ill-suited to me. I was specifically thinking about things like (1) taking the basic English list and make sure we have words for everything and (2) polishing the actual PDF draft until we're happy with printing the result. Both seem like things sit-down sessions would work for. Other than that, I agree. -Robin -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BPFK" group. To post to this group, send email to bpfk-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bpfk-list+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bpfk-list?hl=en.