From lojban-out@lojban.org Thu May 05 06:45:39 2005 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 64722 invoked from network); 5 May 2005 13:45:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m26.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 5 May 2005 13:45:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 May 2005 13:45:38 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DTge2-0005q9-Ar for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Thu, 05 May 2005 06:44:02 -0700 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1DTgdj-0005pe-HA; Thu, 05 May 2005 06:43:44 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 05 May 2005 06:43:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DTgdY-0005pV-F3 for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 06:43:32 -0700 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.206]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1DTgdX-0005p8-Dy for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 06:43:32 -0700 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so684521wri for ; Thu, 05 May 2005 06:43:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.50.66 with SMTP id x66mr200330wrx; Thu, 05 May 2005 06:43:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.67.20 with HTTP; Thu, 5 May 2005 06:43:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <925d175605050506434f0695bc@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 10:43:00 -0300 In-Reply-To: <737b61f305050506193cfc7896@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline References: <737b61f305050416391251a54d@mail.gmail.com> <12d58c160505050608ee83a55@mail.gmail.com> <737b61f305050506193cfc7896@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) X-archive-position: 9932 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias@gmail.com X-list: lojban-list X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Originating-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0 X-eGroups-From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?= From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?= Reply-To: jjllambias@gmail.com Subject: [lojban] Re: .aunai and .a'unai X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 24305 On 5/5/05, Chris Capel wrote: > On 5/5/05, Adam COOPER wrote: > > Maybe 'inclination' would be a better gloss than 'desire'. > > Maybe all of the words could use two glosses. Full definitions even. In the case of attitudinals, the glosses aren't even very accurate because true glosses would have to be things like "Oh!", "Ah!", "Aha!", "Mmm...", etc. > I know there was an > inclination to give every word a single gloss for the purposes of the > vocabulary learning software, but that should hardly be extended to > the definitions themselves. Indeed. > So for instance, the Spanish word (IIRC) "bulto" has the glosses > "bust, statue". Bust tells you that it's a bust, and statue tells you > that it's the plaster-head kind of bust. Hmm... that would be "busto", but "busto" can also be "bust, bosom". "Bulto" is "bulk, package". mu'o mi'e xorxes