Re: [jbovlaste] Re: jbovlaste natlang word voting question

["Suki Venkat" <skvenkat@tnq.co.in>]

Oops!

That was blundering bufffon
-who didn't know how to use blackberry!!

Suki

On 5/20/07, Robin Lee Powell < rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:

Was there supposed to be some content here?

-Robin

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:20:57PM +0000, skvenkat@tnq.co.in wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
>
> Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 20:17:08
> To:jbovlaste@lojban.org , lojban-list@lojban.org
> Subject: [jbovlaste] jbovlaste natlang word voting question
>
>
>
> A jbovlaste question; if you don't care about how jbovlaste works or
> is laid out, move along.
>
> I'm pondering the nature of natlang word voting; look at
> http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/natlang/en/computer%20program for
> example (if anyone can suggest a better example, where "better" is
> defined here as "more contention", please speak up).
>
> I'm wondering if natlang word voting buys us anything.  I mean, a
> Lojban word has only one meaning, so it's not Ok for the second
> place of sampli to mean both "computer program" and "astronaut".  :)
> But it *is* OK for "computer program" to map to both sampli and
> samtci, as occurs on that page.  I don't see a lot of value to
> preferring one over the other; maybe if they're both above water (a
> positive vote value) we should have both in the dictionary?
>
> What do you all think?
>
> As a related philosophical issue, is it OK for the second place of
> sampli to mean both "computer program" and "computer" (as is
> currently the case)?  Why or why not?  I'm honestly not sure one way
> or the other.
>
> -Robin
>
> --
> http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/
> Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!"
> Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/
>
>

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:35:51PM +0000, skvenkat@tnq.co.in wrote:
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> Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robin Lee Powell < rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
>
> Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 20:17:08
> To:jbovlaste@lojban.org, lojban-list@lojban.org
> Subject: [jbovlaste] jbovlaste natlang word voting question
>
>
>
> A jbovlaste question; if you don't care about how jbovlaste works or
> is laid out, move along.
>
> I'm pondering the nature of natlang word voting; look at
> http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/natlang/en/computer%20program for
> example (if anyone can suggest a better example, where "better" is
> defined here as "more contention", please speak up).
>
> I'm wondering if natlang word voting buys us anything.  I mean, a
> Lojban word has only one meaning, so it's not Ok for the second
> place of sampli to mean both "computer program" and "astronaut".  :)
> But it *is* OK for "computer program" to map to both sampli and
> samtci, as occurs on that page.  I don't see a lot of value to
> preferring one over the other; maybe if they're both above water (a
> positive vote value) we should have both in the dictionary?
>
> What do you all think?
>
> As a related philosophical issue, is it OK for the second place of
> sampli to mean both "computer program" and "computer" (as is
> currently the case)?  Why or why not?  I'm honestly not sure one way
> or the other.
>
> -Robin
>
> --
> http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/
> Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!"
> Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/
>
>


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Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!"
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