Date:         Thu, 15 Oct 1998 22:33:27 -0400
Reply-To:     Steve Furlong <furlos@RPI.EDU>
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From:         Steve Furlong <furlos@RPI.EDU>
Subject:      Re: vals,r,tesoroso
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.u'u da zo'u mi xusra pu nu da sutra spuda ku .i mi na brebi'o pu
.i mi nitcu ci djedi nu ciska cu lojbo vals,r,paragrafo

.i le cabna vals,r,tesoroso vasru zoi .kuot The work is incomplete and
omits new gismu. .kuot .i mi krici le vals,r,tesoroso na mulno

.i pe'u ko ciska le klesi .a ko ciska le cmene le vals,r,tesorosu

co'o mi'e stivn.


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Here's what I first wrote in English:

Rats. I should have known there would be a quick response and prepared
for it. It takes me about three days to write a paragraph in Lojban,
and I just wasn't ready to continue the discussion.

Regarding completeness, well, I was just taking my cue from the
statement at the top of the file 'roget': "The work is incomplete and
omits new gismu." I was unsure of the currency of that statement
because it was in a paragraph labelled "6/90 version" and the
copyright at the top of the file said "1991", but it was all I had to
go on.

Regarding the organization of the existent thesaurus, I'd appreciate
your posting the hierarchy as a table of contents, or just giving the
name and edition of the (presumably English) thesaurus used as a
template. I'm guessing that "Roget" is to thesauri as "Webster" is to
dictionaries: a talisman to give the air of authenticity rather than a
meaningful statement of intellectual lineage.

Finally, regarding my replicating all that work, d'oh! I claim the
excuse of mental patterns formed by my career: I make my living mainly
by taking over screwed up software projects with no coherence, poor
quality, and no design and implementation notes; usually the best
solution is to scrap the existent work and start over. Sometimes I
forget that that pattern doesn't always apply to the rest of life.

Ta,
Steven

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Here's the English I mangled into some semblence of Lojban:

Chagrin. I knew someone would quickly respond. I did not prepare. I
need three days for writing a paragraph in Lojban.

The current thesaurus contains "The work is incomplete and omits new
gismu." I believed that the thesaurus is incomplete.

Please write the classes or write the name of the thesaurus.

Bye,
Steven