[lojban-beginners] Re: Firefox Add-on: Lojban Popup Dictionary

["Karl Naylor" <karl.org@gmail.com>]

On 30/07/07, m.kornig@sondal.net <m.kornig@sondal.net> wrote:

> Often not all places are needed. So why show the entire definition
> by default?

Why not?  It doesn't take much to glance at the complete definition
and see that an appropriate English gloss word would be 'deputy'.  I
generally want to see the full place structure of a gismu anyway when
I'm looking them up.

> The other day I was looking for the translation of "house". And
> it took me some 10 minutes to find {zdani} in the gismu list (which
> is described by "nest" if I remember correctly). This is what I mean
> by *strange phrasing*.

I just did a simple text search for 'house' in the gismu list and
{zdani} was the only match.  But since the definition:

x1 is a nest/house/lair/den/[home] of/for x2

uses 'nest' first, and since 'nest' is also the gloss word for {zdani}
(the fifth column in the gismu list), I would take that as a strong
reminder that {zdani} is not just for human houses, which is what
prompted me to use {zdadi'u} for 'house' in my version of
Goldilocks...