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On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 07:23:12PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Some suggestions, just stuff that has come up for me:
>>
>> agentive
>> non-agentive
>> mathematical
>> computer science
>>
>> I'd do more right now, but I have many other Lojban things I'm
>> doing tonight.  Other suggestions?
>
> Anyone?  Anyone?  Bueler?  Anyone?

Making up more terms shouldn't be too much of a problem. But I suspect 
that coming up with a *good* set, that can be used in the majority of 
cases, is profoundly difficult.

It *might* be a good idea to extract some categories from the gismu list, 
such as:

* shape/form
* tool
* bodypart

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