Date:         Tue, 20 Oct 1998 19:03:15 +0000
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From:         "C.D. Wright" <C.D.Wright@SOLIPSYS.COMPULINK.CO.UK>
Subject:      Lojban word lists, etc.
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Please forgive the English rather than lojban, perhaps someone might
translate this for me and re-post it to gives others the practice of
reading it ...

As a quick suggestion and proposal ...

One of my greatest problems in writing lojban is that I can rarely
find the word I want.  I know the word in English, but can't find
the one that has an associated gismu or cmavo.  What I want is a
plain text file with lots of words in it, many words per line, but
where the first word on each line is the lojban word I want.  This
way I can write more readily, and the common words should insinuate
themselves automatically into my memory and thereby reinforce all my
other memorisation techniques.

The idea is to include primarily common words, unlike in a thesaurus
where every possible connection is made, the idea here is to provide
an aid, rather than a reference tome.

So, how to create this plain text file?  I have a list of words for
which I would like to accumulate synonyms.  As an example, from the
gismu list I have


   nelci : fond : x1 is fond of/likes/has a taste for x2 (object/state)
           (cf. cinmo, djica, pluka, prami, rigni, sinma, trina, xebni)


What I want then is an entry like ...

   nelci : fond : love like fancy revere adore
                  affection charm admire regard


Now, this is too big a job for me.  There are some 1500 words to be
converted, and at 10 per day, 70 per week, it would take 5 months.
However, if people were to send me email then I could sent them just
10 words, and they could send me back their suggested synonyms.  The
entries don't have to be absolutely complete, just a good stab would
do.  I would then collate these to produce the list mentioned above,
and make it available to everyone.


Thoughts? I've already set up the first 10 sets of 10 to respond to
the first replies I get.


Colin
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