From xod@sixgirls.org Fri Jan 04 12:42:50 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 4 Jan 2002 20:42:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 9018 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2002 20:42:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m9.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 4 Jan 2002 20:42:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (216.27.131.50) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Jan 2002 20:42:49 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.6+3.4W/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g04Kglj28179 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 15:42:48 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 15:42:47 -0500 (EST) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] cmavo index? In-Reply-To: <20020104203714.GF1650@aerosol> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=1138703 X-Yahoo-Profile: throwing_back_the_apple X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 12789 On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, randl. nortmn. wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 03:28:37PM -0500, jspickes@etrademail.com wrote: > [...] > > I'm still interested in whether or not anyone has devised a nicer way to do > > this. > > I've been thinking that a searchable database of usage examples would > be wonderful. Enter a word (gismu, cmavo, or lujvo) and find usage > examples with translations and possibly commentary. With some work, > mailing list posts and IRC transcripts could be automatically fed into > the database to generate real-world usage examples. There is so much broken Lojban floating around that automatic entry would be a problem. There's been lots of talk of an example database, however. Search the Wiki for Dictionary stuff. -- The tao that can be tar(1)ed is not the entire Tao. The path that can be specified is not the Full Path.