From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed May 23 11:50:02 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 23 May 2007 11:50:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HqvuL-00042E-2A for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 11:50:02 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HqvuK-000427-2H for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 11:50:00 -0700 Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 11:50:00 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: dicussions about basic vocabulary Message-ID: <20070523184959.GL7871@digitalkingdom.org> References: <1179942426.46547e1a60fa0@ssl0.ovh.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1179942426.46547e1a60fa0@ssl0.ovh.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 4622 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 07:47:06PM +0200, m.kornig@sondal.net wrote: > Hello everybody, > > Recently, I've asked for help to find Lojban equivalents to > "apparently simple" words like "neighbo(u)r" or "bicycle". And I > sometimes got several different replies and you have started to > discuss alternatives, meanings, pros and cons, correcting each > other, etc. > > Is that because this is a beginners mailing list, i.e. because > some of you participants are beginners yourself and struggle with > words exactly as I do? Yes. > Or is it some intrinsic feature of Lojban itself? Meaning that the > Lojban vocabulary is not well defined (yet)? Yes. We are monstrously short on vocab compared to a natural language. OTOH, we're *way* ahead of, say, Klingon. I'm planning on making jbovlaste easier to use to try to make this better in the near future. -Robin