[jbovlaste] Re: buckwheat

[Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org>]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Pierre Abbat wrote:

> On Thursday 17 March 2005 00:51, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > Ideally, by adding the two words you listed above with sorrel and
> > rhubarb as the gloss words.
> >
> > Perhaps I'm missing the problem?
>
> Ignoring the synonym, we have four Lojban words and three English words. So we
> could set the glosses to:
> xruba -> rhubarb, sorrel, buckwheat
> stanyxruba -> rhubarb
> pezyxruba -> sorrel
> xrixruba -> buckwheat
> Depending on the votes, one of the Lojban words will not appear in the
> English-Lojban part. Adding "Polygonaceae" as a gloss doesn't solve this,
> because most English speakers (at least the ones I know) don't know the word
> and don't even know that these plants are in the same family. (I didn't until
> I learned the word {xruba}, and I know more taxonomy than most people.)

My opinion is that the most specific words get the back-links. Hence, no 
English word will point to {xruba}. I don't see this as a big problem, if 
there is no simple English word or phrase that refers to Polygonaceae

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Arnt Richard Johansen                                http://arj.nvg.org/
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