To: lojban-list
Subject: help wanted
Date: 30 May 90 05:49:38 EDT (Wed)
From: wetblu!uunet!cbmvax!snark.uu.net!lojbab
Message-Id: <9005300549.AA13917@snark.uu.net>
Status: RO

I'm looking for someone who knows Arabic to help in making a few proposed
gismu.  If you or someone you know is willing to help out, it would be
much appreciated.  We will have somewhere around 15 words that we need
'lojbanized phonetic' transcriptions of the Arabic for, so for someone
who knows Arabic, this could take an hour or less.

I am also looking for an Esperantist, who can tell me the words for
'morning' andfor 'arm', and who knows the language well enough, or can
check a few dictionaries to tell me whether these words are defined the
way they are in English.  By way of explanation, in some languages, the
arm includes the hand, in others not.  In some, the 'hand' goes all the
way to the elbow.  For morning, in German, 'morning' is not properly used
after about 10am, and in Sweden after abaout 6am.  Other words of distinct
meaning are used after this point (such as 'forenoon", etc.).
The obvious question is how an 'international language' such as Esperanto
deals with choosing a meaning for its concept, or whether the question is 
even addressed (if not - so much for cultural neutrality - or for good
communications) in dictionaries.  I need the answer before LogFest, as it
will affect discussions of gismu proposals and dictionary planning.

-thanx
-lojbab