[jbovlaste] Re: Examples in jbovlaste

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Thursday 12 October 2006 21:40, Yanis Batura wrote:
> What hear I? Each definition is a different meaning? I always thought each
> definition is a different way of describing/defining the same meaning... if
> not, then Lojban will collapse into the sea of ambiguity :)

The examples are usages of the Lojban word. The definitions are explanations 
of the meaning of this Lojban word in English, Norwegian, French, Portuguese, 
etc. The examples in Lojban should go equally well with a definition in any 
language.

Although no Lojban brivla has meanings as disparate as "hymenopteran" 
and "spelling contest", some brivla have uncertain or unclear boundaries of 
meaning. I'm not sure, for example, whether a sawfly or an ichneumon fly is a 
bifce or not, and once when I got into an argument about the word {fragari} 
(or was it {frambesi}?), Lojbab came up with, IIRR, three possible 
circumscriptions of the meaning of {rozgu}. (Both the fragari and the 
frambesi are in Rosoideae. The plise is not, but is in Rosaceae.)

Pierre