[lojban-beginners] Re: latest lujvo.txt file?

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 8/10/05, Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
> 1. Where is the latest lujvo.txt file? Or is it totally
> superseded somehow by jbovlaste (which I really haven't
> looked at yet)?

I don't know where the latest lujvo.txt is, but jbovlaste should
have all it contains and much more. That's really the only
currently updated lujvo repository.

> 2. Also: Why does this file reference things like x6 and x7?
> I thought there were never more than five normal sumti?

There is no theoretical limit to the number of numbered
arguments a selbri can have. The limit of 5 is only for
gismu, though there are even a few gismu that have an 
indefinite number of places, such as {jutsi}:

 jutsi [ jut ] species
x1 is a species of genus x2, family x3, etc.; 
[open-ended tree-structure categorization] 

Personally, I think that 4 places are already too many
and very few relations justify that, but that's a different
issue.

> 3. Finally: Is there a process in place for making minor
> corrections to these files?

Everyone can contribute to jbovlaste when they feel they
are up to it, making the modifications they consider 
appropriate. Competing definitions can be voted on, and this
will eventually sort the wheat from the chaff, but this process
hasn't really taken off yet. Not many proposed lujvo have 
more than one definition or votes.

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