From lojban+bncCK30vq5WENris-QEGgQVUE_T@googlegroups.com Sun Sep 12 08:27:41 2010 Received: from mail-pw0-f61.google.com ([209.85.160.61]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OuoSs-0000eh-FD; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 08:27:40 -0700 Received: by pwj6 with SMTP id 6sf273648pwj.16 for ; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 08:27:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:x-beenthere:received:received:received :received:received-spf:received:date:from:to:subject:message-id :references:mime-version:in-reply-to:user-agent:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender:list-subscribe :list-unsubscribe:content-type:content-disposition; bh=8qfcalNbJgKBYyEnE+5jQ3e3gVT/j0uRNopcdILQih8=; b=gVG2F7aOg51RcSOhtlWJPeuiT7ixpz7wgqZXJtZzhZiRrVJHOM8GC01RpFuWoQ3G5n i5BG0R+u062Npb76S1bVs471KpLbOR8GSQwlgRkTMiTXxl8YPMc+ej+sr6Ow6e3LVxtD NKI94c8F36aNMWMo4fK6rsVQ+aTkvJWYBqe1w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:date:from:to:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:in-reply-to:user-agent:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender:list-subscribe :list-unsubscribe:content-type:content-disposition; b=SfcmUeVZAo3dAOG6I/K8Y9lIJM5llxVMV48qGyawqHN5O146VXEJHdNaWnXX1Rmy1Y fmDq0e5yEJ+PZMcYboz2yuGVQH8fY0DYRttr6oGQ9+91aXIJkUHh23ekL9wwnOqYMIqG HSFZtTgzkLA+9CaiqSy9S36Kn9IpuuVKBwaOE= Received: by 10.115.66.26 with SMTP id t26mr165395wak.18.1284305242626; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 08:27:22 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.115.67.12 with SMTP id u12ls10591058wak.3.p; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 08:27:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.26.16 with SMTP id 16mr734017waz.46.1284305241845; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 08:27:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.26.16 with SMTP id 16mr734016waz.46.1284305241803; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 08:27:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org (chain.digitalkingdom.org [64.81.66.169]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTP id j18si6197989wan.5.2010.09.12.08.27.21; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 08:27:21 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org designates 64.81.66.169 as permitted sender) client-ip=64.81.66.169; Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OuoSe-0000aK-77 for lojban@googlegroups.com; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 08:27:20 -0700 Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 08:27:20 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Technical, Help Request: What information *should* a Lojban dictionary system have? Message-ID: <20100912152719.GP13937@digitalkingdom.org> References: <20100911215035.GG13937@digitalkingdom.org> <8B06025C-7DF2-4C4D-8336-07AAF1CC5C65@switchb.org> <20100912004044.GK13937@digitalkingdom.org> <640A6FE3-8AD3-44E9-B41E-779C7E03989D@switchb.org> <20100912010225.GM13937@digitalkingdom.org> <20100912012219.GA91157@alice.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100912012219.GA91157@alice.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Original-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org designates 64.81.66.169 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 07:22:19PM -0600, Alan Post wrote: > I've realized working on these programs that each one of them uses > a different copy of the dictionary. That strikes me, > architecturally, as a problem. I'd really like these programs to > be drawing from the same data source: the dictionary does change, > and even if we imagine the community dictionary never changing, > *I'm* not currently happy with it and want to make changes to my > local copy. > > I have longer term plans to add to the corpus of Lojban-using > programs, and very much support defining a data format that > supports the use cases we put it to. Yes, *exactly*. So the question is, what would such a thing look like? -Robin -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. 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