[jbovlaste] Re: "jargon" field added.

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

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 08:46:28PM +0200, Arnt Richard Johansen
wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 05:52:04PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > 
> > I added a field that can be used to mark words that are local
> > jargon; this seemed useful for the RPG campaign I'm thinking of
> > running.
> > 
> > This way we can still have them in jbovlaste, but keep them out
> > of a hard-copy printed dictionary.
> > 
> > I have not modified the dictionary bits to reflect this, but
> > otherwise it seems to work; please poke at it.
> 
> I do not think this is a good idea.
> 
> Why not use a terminology page on the wiki instead?

Because that's entirely orthogonal.  The point here is that
"noljedai" was made up for my RPG campaign, and no-one should ever
think that it's OK to randomly use that for "Jedi" unless they're
playing with me.  Hence, either I don't put it in jbovlaste or if I
do, it needs to make it clear that that's a special word.

I think jbovlaste should be used for any words Lojbanists actually
use, but that doesn't mean all of them are equally general-use.

Can you explain why you don't like this idea?

-Robin

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