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Subject: [jbovlaste] Re: [lojban] jbovlaste natlang word voting question
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Well, it's useful to give the most frequently used word, but the
alternatives should be explicitly specified (you don't have to go
somewhere else to find them).

On 5/12/07, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 08:17:08PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >
> > A jbovlaste question; if you don't care about how jbovlaste works or
> > is laid out, move along.
> >
> > I'm pondering the nature of natlang word voting; look at
> > http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/natlang/en/computer%20program for
> > example (if anyone can suggest a better example, where "better" is
> > defined here as "more contention", please speak up).
> >
> > I'm wondering if natlang word voting buys us anything.  I mean, a
> > Lojban word has only one meaning, so it's not Ok for the second
> > place of sampli to mean both "computer program" and "astronaut".
> > :) But it *is* OK for "computer program" to map to both sampli and
> > samtci, as occurs on that page.  I don't see a lot of value to
> > preferring one over the other; maybe if they're both above water
> > (a positive vote value) we should have both in the dictionary?
> >
> > What do you all think?
>
> Someone pointed out that you couldn't acutally derive that second
> place of sampli from its components, so I've corrected that.  Try
> http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/natlang/en/ball instead for an example
> of multiple natlang usages; if the dictionary said something like
> "ball - first place of bolci, second place of selboi", would that be
> a bad thing?
>
> -Robin
>
>
>
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