Return-path: Envelope-to: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Delivery-date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:51:52 -0800 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1DC1xK-0004nG-EQ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:51:00 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list jbovlaste); Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:50:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DC1xI-0004nA-GF for jbovlaste-real@lojban.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:50:56 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DC1xI-0004n3-Dy for jbovlaste@lojban.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:50:56 -0800 Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:50:56 -0800 To: jbovlaste@lojban.org Subject: [jbovlaste] Re: buckwheat Message-ID: <20050317205056.GT3514@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <200503162138.17076.phma@phma.hn.org> <20050317055154.GM3514@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <200503170522.55821.phma@phma.hn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Robin Lee Powell X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: jbovlaste-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: jbovlaste-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: jbovlaste@lojban.org X-list: jbovlaste X-Spam-Score: -5.4 (-----) Content-Length: 1393 Lines: 42 On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 11:50:50AM +0100, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: > On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > >On Thursday 17 March 2005 00:51, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > >>Ideally, by adding the two words you listed above with sorrel > >>and rhubarb as the gloss words. > >> > >>Perhaps I'm missing the problem? > > > >Ignoring the synonym, we have four Lojban words and three English > >words. > >So we > >could set the glosses to: > >xruba -> rhubarb, sorrel, buckwheat > >stanyxruba -> rhubarb > >pezyxruba -> sorrel > >xrixruba -> buckwheat > > > >Depending on the votes, one of the Lojban words will not appear > >in the English-Lojban part. Adding "Polygonaceae" as a gloss > >doesn't solve this, because most English speakers (at least the > >ones I know) don't know the word and don't even know that these > >plants are in the same family. (I didn't until I learned the word > >{xruba}, and I know more taxonomy than most people.) > > My opinion is that the most specific words get the back-links. > Hence, no English word will point to {xruba}. I don't see this as > a big problem, if there is no simple English word or phrase that > refers to Polygonaceae I agree. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/