Date: Fri, 13 Aug 93 00:25:17 EDT
From: lojbab@grebyn.com (Logical Language Group)
Message-Id: <9308130425.AA26685@grebyn.com>
To: nsn@mullian.ee.Mu.OZ.AU
Subject: Re: Where is our JL?
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Oh, the glosses WILL be interleaved in the dictionary.  I just didn;t want
to add to the file length at this stage when the list is being trnsferred
multiple times over the net.  But for me, doing anything with unix files
is not always easy.  When you send through Lojban List, the lines get
wrapped, and I have to chop mailer info out (--more--?, etc.) from my
capture file, and then have to turn you tab delimied file into something
with fixed length fields so I can READ it.

We may not want optimal forms for ALL words.  After all, optimal is determined
by a rather  stupid scoring algorithm that we may not agree with in all
cases.  I certainly prefer le'avla to lebvla, though this might be because
it has become sacred - but bvl ain't a nice cluster in any case.  So we will
have tyo have SOME multiple entries.  I would rather minimize them especially
for words that haven't seen much usage.  We also need to maintain
traceability from original word to whatever we decide in each case, so
that we can backfit into old texts should we decide to update them in the
future.

lojbab