From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Sep 22 10:52:18 2010 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:52:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OyTUQ-0000rn-BL for llg-board@lojban.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:52:18 -0700 Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:52:18 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Re: Robin told me to e-mail you. Message-ID: <20100922175218.GR30871@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-board@lojban.org References: <234942.11937.qm@web50404.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <4C681306.1070809@lojban.org> <20100910181945.GA20652@digitalkingdom.org> <4C8AF55C.3020603@lojban.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C8AF55C.3020603@lojban.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-archive-position: 687 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-board@lojban.org X-list: llg-board On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:19:56PM -0400, Robert LeChevalier wrote: > It seems to me that there are two levels of technical stuff. One > level involves extracting corpus examples for each word, and > relevant text from CLL, and possibly using those examples to come > up with one or more definitions (a different definition might > apply to "pu" used as a tense, vs "pu" as a sumti tcita, of only > because the definitions are being written in English, and the > translation of the word is different because of English > idiosyncrasies). > > Debating language issues is a wholly different matter, and > possibly a never-ending task. I wish we could get everything else > out of the way before we even start to debate language issues, and > we might find that those worthy of significant debate are few > enough to motivate us to eschew much debate. If reaching > consensus means that I have to give in on a few minor points (or > even a few dozen, if they are minor enough), I'll find it easy to > do if I know that the job will then be done. That's exactly my feeling as well. I believe Lindar can do all of the first bit. Ey has little or no interest in the latter, IME (eir idea of arguing is ... not helpful). > The Right Thing to Do (tm) is to consult with a lawyer or > accountant, as to what would be legal. Feel absolutely free. :) Because we don't know how to pay *them* either. :) > But consulting with someone with expertise is worth doing, whether > we need to do this with Lindar or not. I agree. My refusal applies to this, as well, though. -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/