Date: Tue, 6 Jul 93 00:07:01 EDT
From: lojbab@grebyn.com (Logical Language Group)
Message-Id: <9307060407.AA28439@grebyn.com>
To: nsn@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au
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Since you are planning on lots of free time coming up, I
will remind you of your offers back when I posted the
dictionary outline to you (all of this lower priority than
your current lujvo paper and related work, but until/unless
we decide not to include them in the dictionary much higher
priority than JL or text):

>
>>                   Eaton/TLI lists (heavily weeded and
edited)
>
>This will eventually be my job, I take it?

Do I need to send this file to you, or did I do so already
(it is 600K odd as I recall, 284K zipped, so I doubt it)  Is
it best to email something of this size, or send it on disk
with your JL, and do you handle zip files OK, or better
compressed.

>>                             collected old proposals
>>15                              ~1000
>
>You mean, old ma'oste?  Because all the proposals that have
appeared in
>JL have been included in my 1700.

I can send a Xerox of all the garbage I have with your JL,
for you to sort out and enter at will,  Ideally all stuff
gets entered, with the weeding out therefore reviewable.
Else I can try to find someone locally who is willing to
type the stuff in.

Hmm.  I just pulled this stuff out, and it isn't worth
xeroxing or farming out.  Probably only I can interpret many
of my notes and much of my handwriting.  The volume is a bit
greater than I thought, too - maybe 250 pages of useful
stuff, but these are mixed in with printouts of various
Eaton pages that have no extra annotations, and hence would
already be processed separately under the Eaton work.  I may
use this as a way to take a break from other dictionary work
as I do it.

>>1            Lojbanizing of names
>>3                    *some personal names
>
>Say the word, and I'll start working on this too.

"the word" %^)  (this one needs no input from me - cover as
wide a range of glico names as possible, plus a smattering
of more recognizable ethnic names specific to other
languages, with language identified if possible.

>>BTW, I hope you have documented the lujvo that you have
weeded out,
>>including why they were weeded, and the notes as to which
piece they
>>were in, if known.  I will probably go with your
decisions, if only >>for time considerations, but
eventually, all need to be run through >>more than one
person, and perhaps the original poser, as well where
>>applicable.

I think you said you had not documented deletions, but could
do so.


I am thinking about computer terminology as an area to add
to the le'avla section, or maybe linguistic terminilogy, or
both.  Both subjects get talked about a lot amongst our
audience, and having the vocabulary might encourage more
efforts at Lojban text and conversation.  Computer
terminology in particular might be a place to decide on our
first few type IV le'avla, for such concepts as 'byte'/'bit'
- or maybe the words that are most common in computer
technology are particularly lujvo-able: skami-sorcu-gradu
samsrorau; skami-sorcu-selci??? samsrosle.  Even moderately
long lujvo are favored given the length of a le'avla lujvo
under the current system, kilto zei blaiti (based on a
possible Type IV, vs. ki'osamsrorau), and a Type II le'avla
would be even worse.