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[bpfk] the definition of {gleki}

The list http://www.lojban.org/publications/wordlists/gismu.txt
gives the following definition of {gleki}

gleki gek     gei  happy                'gay'                x1 is happy/gay/merry/glad/gleeful about x2 (event/state)         

I suggest that this should be changed to

gleki gek     gei  happy                'glad'                x1 is happy/merry/glad/gleeful about x2 (event/state)         


Notice two changes?
I suggest this because we already have a registered incident on IRC when one nintadni thought that {gleki} covered the sense of {mitcinpa'i} as well.
This is NOT the problem of Lojban. This is only the problem of English changing.

If "gay" no longer means "merry" (or it's almost never used in such sense nowadays) then the definition should be changed accordingly.


(And no one forbids you to translate gimste to "Old English" zo'o)

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