From @uga.cc.uga.edu:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Thu Nov 26 14:59:26 1992 Received: from uga.cc.uga.edu by MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Thu, 26 Nov 1992 10:10:23 -0500 Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU by uga.cc.uga.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 8291; Thu, 26 Nov 92 10:07:05 EST Received: from UGA.BITNET by UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (Mailer R2.08 PTF008) with BSMTP id 6622; Thu, 26 Nov 92 10:07:04 EST Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1992 14:59:26 +0000 Reply-To: CJ FINE Sender: Lojban list From: CJ FINE Subject: Re: a little aside: lojban dictionary? X-To: Paul Fly To: Erik Rauch In-Reply-To: (null) Status: RO X-Status: Message-ID: On Wed, 25 Nov 1992, Paul Fly wrote: > > Has there been talk of ever trying to make a lojban dictionary in lojban? > I told a friend about lojban once and this was their first question. Given > that good definitions should not use synonyms or metaphors, or define by > negative terms of something else, I find it hard to see how the gismu could > be defined in lojban. Has this been discussed before? Is it relevent at > all? > > Just wonderin' > Paul I have had sporadic goes at this. I agree that it is an extremely worthwhile project, for all sorts of reasons - not just having it, but also the exercise of using Lojban for this purpose, explicit statement of the relationships between different brivla aetc. However, it is an absolutely enormous project, and not one that we should delay anything for. (To be more precise, I started a Loglan dictionary in Loglan many years ago, and more recently, (this year) started a dictionary of Lojban cmavo in Lojban. In each case I only got as far as a few words.) Colin