Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 14:29:14 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199709101929.OAA08100@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: george.foot@merton.oxford.ac.uk Sender: Lojban list Comments: Authenticated sender is From: George Foot Subject: Pocket dictionary X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 906 Lines: 19 After Logfest it was announced that the next book after the Reference Grammar was likely to be some form of pocket dictionary. lojbab said: "don;t be surprised if this is out within a very few months." Is there any update on this? I'd be interested to hear more about what type of dictionary this may be -- English to Lojban or Lojban to English, whether a Lojban to English dictionary would list words by type (gismu, cmavo, etc) or just alphabetically, whether rafsi would be listed, whether an English to Lojban dictionary might have sections for words related to one another as well as a pure alphabetical list (i.e. like many vocabulary books I used when I was at school learning foreign languages). The categorised style probably wouldn't be ideal for a dictionary, but I personally think it could be a useful learning resource. -- George Foot (george.foot@merton.ox.ac.uk) Merton College, Oxford.