From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Aug 27 13:38:33 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:38:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mgljs-0005Zm-Qg for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:38:33 -0700 Received: from imr-da05.mx.aol.com ([205.188.105.147]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mgljp-0005Yg-EJ for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:38:32 -0700 Received: from imo-da02.mx.aol.com (imo-da02.mx.aol.com [205.188.169.200]) by imr-da05.mx.aol.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n7RKcFGM023545 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:38:15 -0400 Received: from MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com by imo-da02.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v42.5.) id d.cec.6126bd23 (39955) for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:38:11 -0400 (EDT) From: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:38:11 EDT Subject: [lojban] Re: Compound vs Coordinate Bilinguals To: lojban-list@lojban.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_cec.6126bd23.37c848b3_boundary" X-Mailer: 6.0 for Windows XP sub 11501 X-Spam-Flag:NO X-AOL-SENDER: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com X-archive-position: 16067 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --part1_cec.6126bd23.37c848b3_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 8/27/2009 16:14:43 Eastern Daylight Time, adam.raizen@gmail.com writes: > That's on the level of a more detailed definition. It can still capture > only an approximation all the usage in all possible scenarios that any > fluent speaker knows intuitively. > Perhaps, but NSM does it very much better than standard definitions, which in many cases (colors, emotions), can't do it at all. stevo --part1_cec.6126bd23.37c848b3_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In a messag= e dated 8/27/2009 16:14:43 Eastern Daylight Time, adam.raizen@gmail.com wr= ites:


That's on the level of= a more detailed definition. It can still capture only an approximation al= l the usage in all possible scenarios that any fluent speaker knows intuit= ively.


Perhaps, but NSM does it very much better than standard definitions,= which in many cases (colors, emotions), can't do it at all.

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