From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Mar 13 06:50:02 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 13 Mar 2005 06:50:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DAUPh-0006kS-8x for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 06:49:53 -0800 Received: from web81308.mail.yahoo.com ([206.190.37.83]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.44) id 1DAUPg-0006k7-4M for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 06:49:52 -0800 Message-ID: <20050313144921.30367.qmail@web81308.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [65.69.48.37] by web81308.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 06:49:21 PST Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 06:49:21 -0800 (PST) From: John E Clifford Subject: [lojban] Re: Semantic Primes To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <20050313143456.56863.qmail@web81307.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 9572 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: clifford-j@sbcglobal.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --- John E Clifford wrote: > In any case, I see some real advantages to > Lojban > from your project. Since Lojban gismu are > meant > to be monosemous, you will pin them down to a > single item in the Wordnet set and thus > explicitly get rid of the rivals: {djuno} for > example is ^know^3, especially not 1 or 2. It > is, alas, not quite 3 even, since 3 allows > "know" > to be used when we only have supreme > confiidence > that something is the case even when it turns > out > not to be, {berti} in short. Thus, Lojban may {bIrti}! > have some useful reflections back onto Wordnet, > by proposing other divisions of the same space > (I > can see someone arguing that {djuno}, while it > excludes 1 and 2 of ^know^ might include some > other cases (perhaps 9, for example)while still > being offically monosemous within Lojban. > > Go for it!