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Subject: [jbovlaste] Re: to injure
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On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 07:23:12PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 10:21:54AM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> > I think "cause injury" is a better gloss than "injure", but
> > "cause injury" could also be a gloss for {xainri'a}, so maybe
> > {xairgau} should be disambiguated with "agentive".
> 
> I think probably the Right Thing to do is to come up with a list
> of disambiguiting terms that we think are appropriate for an
> actual dictionary.

As another exmaple, how do we disambiguate the entries in

    http://www.lojban.org/jbovlaste/natlang/en/natural%20language

My solution is pretty crappy.  Changing one word or the other is, of
course, an option.

-Robin

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