From phma@ixazon.dynip.com Tue Aug 10 21:44:51 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 21:44:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [216.189.121.177] (helo=blackcat.ixazon.lan) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.32) id 1Bukyf-0007RD-Ji for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 10 Aug 2004 21:44:41 -0700 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C837D4B07; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 04:44:09 +0000 (UTC) From: Pierre Abbat Organization: dis To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: The Lojban Wikipedia is up Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 00:44:09 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200408080634.18420.phma@phma.hn.org> <20040809194407.GU1912@chain.digitalkingdom.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200408110044.09110.phma@phma.hn.org> X-archive-position: 8404 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.hn.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Tuesday 10 August 2004 16:59, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: > On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 06:34:18AM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > > http://jbo.wikipedia.org > > > > What's the point? > > Using Lojban for something wortwhile, I suppose. > > > Everyone here speaks another language; why bother to repeat the same > > information? > > The information contained therein need not be repetitions of the > information contained within other wikipedias. Wouldn't it be nice for a > change if there was some information available in Lojban that was not > available in other languages? I think it's a good way to make up words, use them in context, and put them in a fairly permanent and easily accessible storage. Words in jbovlaste are in the same kind of storage, but jbovlaste records are just definitions. For instance, I just made up the word {jicyjutsi'o}, added it to jbovlaste, and used it in [[finpe]] on Wikipedia. Hopefully someone will write an article on it, which will explain it better than the definition. (I'm not a cladist, so I'm probably not the one to write the article.) phma -- li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa