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[bpfk-announce] Re: BPFK
On 12/21/06, Adam D. Lopresto <adam@pubcrawler.org> wrote:
Actually, what I had in mind was more like your vocabulary game. I'd really
like to see a good compendium of good lojban usage, ideally encompassing
usage of all the cmavo (and all the uses of all of them, for those that have
more than one, like {bo} and {jai}), as well as all the places for all the
gismu.
That's a grand vision. In the meantime, I was thinking more of asking people
to contribute usage examples. I'm not at all sure about putting them on the
unshepherded BPFK sections. Specifically, I fear it would look too official.
That's fine. If I recall correctly, you dislike jboselkei because
unqualified reviewers can mark down a good translation without an
explanation. That is a flaw of a system that has vast potential that
its inventor didn't intend. In my opinion, BPFK members reviews should
be artificially weighted in the scoring.
For a long time I have wanted there to be concordancing software for
jboselkei. As it stands now, I think nobody can even _see_ anything in
the site without logging in, including Google. I'd like to change that
and add jboselkei to the Lojban Custom Google Search (sisyjbo or
something?).
If that concordancing feature is added to jboselkei, it can be a place
where good usage is enshrined, *and* bad usage is pointed out as what
not to do. It's already 90% of the way to what you want. I've never
come up with an idea that came closer, since the pixra game was going
to create gibberish.
Your expansion on the concept of mini-proposals sounds great. When I
said "at least it would be better than nothing", I didn't aim for it
to be a replacement in the best-case or middle-case scenario. I was
acknowledging the worst-case scenario, and pointing out even in the
worst case we would be better off.
-Eppcott