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On Sun, 10 Nov 2013 14:07:20 -0500
Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org> wrote:
> Knowing a word by its definition in another language can lead to
> errors.=20
I disagree. If the definition is disambiguated, it is not the case.
Disambiguation is especially important for Lojban. It is so important
that jbovlaste added the =93sense=94 field for the gloss words.

So the =93sense=94 of a word is also part of the definition. If there is
no sense provided, well, the definition sucks.
Stupid: The gismu gloss words on jbovlaste make _no_ use of the =93sense=94
field, despite the fact that they often use ambigous words. :-( Well,
that needs to be fixed, I think.
But at least I was always able to know the sense by reading the full
definition, so I simply just ignore the gloss word. And it works.

If one just remembered the gloss word, one did not remember the full
definition.

> Similarly one can know that "jdari" means "hard", and "nandu" means
> "hard", and pick the wrong one.
No wonder, these are only the gloss words, not the definitions.

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