Re: [bpfk] What I'm going to do.

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 09:43:47AM +0200, Arnt Richard Johansen
wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:19:51AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > 
> > OK, so.  The urge to just Go Fix Shit has been growing in me.  I
> > think there's actually not all that much to do if I can get
> > people in a room for concentrated time to work on it.
> > 
> > So, here's what's going to happen.
> 
> Looks fine to me, except for this:
> 
> > 6.  I, some other bay area Lojbanists, and a *very* few people
> > via voice chat, sit down for serious, concentrated sessions of
> > Making A Dictionary, hopefully using the next generation of
> > jbovlaste, which someone has written in the meantime.  We
> > publish the resulting dictionary.
> 
> Language definition is basically a small number of large,
> complicated pieces of work, whereas dictionary editing is a large
> number of small, simple units of work. Sit-down sessions as a way
> of doing dictionary work seems particularly ill-suited to me.

I was specifically thinking about things like (1) taking the basic
English list and make sure we have words for everything and (2)
polishing the actual PDF draft until we're happy with printing the
result.

Both seem like things sit-down sessions would work for.  Other than
that, I agree.

-Robin

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