From lojban@cuvmb.bitnet Fri Nov 15 23:13:13 1996 Received: from relay-6.mail.demon.net by stryx.demon.co.uk with SMTP id AA16756 ; Fri, 15 Nov 96 23:12:53 GMT Received: from relay-5.mail.demon.net by mailstore for ia@stryx.demon.co.uk id 848071590:5:12674:1; Fri, 15 Nov 96 15:26:30 GMT Received: from cunyvm.cuny.edu ([128.228.1.2]) by relay-6.mail.demon.net id aa605042; 15 Nov 96 15:26 GMT Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) with BSMTP id 6526; Fri, 15 Nov 96 10:25:44 EST Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 8009; Fri, 15 Nov 96 10:25:27 EDT Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 10:24:56 -0500 Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Organization: Lojban Peripheral Subject: Re: Vocabulary definition To: Conlang List , Lojban List Message-ID: <848071565.65042.0@cunyvm.cuny.edu> Status: R Claudio Gnoli wrote (on Conlang): > Which are the most "useful" meanings? I suppose this problem was > faced when the basic Lojban vocabulary was defined. It should have been, certainly. The Lojban place structure list, which contains entries of the form: klama: x1 goes/comes to x2 from x3 via route x4 using means x5 has been obsessively reviewed and revised and re-reviewed and re-revised, but it's a tremendous job: very few people have the fortitude to process 1350 or so entries, and tend to run out of steam somewhere in the Fs. In essence, this is one of those jobs that is not so much finished as abandoned. There have been various attempts at rationalizing entries that should be parallel, sometimes successfully, sometimes not. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban