From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Aug 09 12:13:36 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 09 Aug 2006 12:13:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GAtUT-0000yd-Of for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 12:13:17 -0700 Received: from web81307.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.199.123]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GAtUP-0000yU-Gt for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 12:13:17 -0700 Received: (qmail 46197 invoked by uid 60001); 9 Aug 2006 19:13:12 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=sbcglobal.net; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=4ZwlZFehvl7ubcK8AjxFcW5iJWO37sgSpavPOIQCm4l457LYCrZ/bjUCMc9kwMFnubVSC8zTDLrNGKq/qMKrMK4AwGSVpaNiLoNHC1BxSptONg7jMFIB2gxZeF9kpabJfFWQXDv6jmvBi6cXFEqvJgv4lY0hlXLhq8LlkYwYabo= ; Message-ID: <20060809191312.46195.qmail@web81307.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [208.207.98.140] by web81307.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 12:13:12 PDT Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 12:13:12 -0700 (PDT) From: John E Clifford Subject: [lojban] Re: translating gismu definitions into Lojban To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <2d3df92a0608091150g6b866009q2ba9173b1c589e8b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-archive-position: 12377 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: clifford-j@sbcglobal.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list While you are on giving Lojban definitions of Lojban, you might consider working out what are the semantic primes (ala Wierzbecka)and trying to do all the definitions using only these (or words properly defined in terms of them) and also try to stick to the semantic prime grammatical schemes. I don't know whether this is really possible (especially because of the place structure of Lojban words), but it provides some source of uniformity and noncircularity for the project. To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.