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[lojban-beginners] Re: geodesic dome
A computer, or a competent lojban-speaker can look at the lujvo and get back the tanru.
However, without having seen the lujvo before, you need to guess what the meaning is, because all you know is the tanru, and tanru can have ambiguous meanings.
What is a frame-ish sphere? Perhaps it's a wireframe sphere - a shape that's not closed. So the entire tanru could mean a building made of wireframe sphere. Obviously such a building would not stop the rain.
If I don't know the lujvo (and hey, it's not in the dictionary) I can only guess what it is.
On 10/25/07,
Joel Shellman <jshellman@gmail.com> wrote:
put in rekyboldi'u and it gives: frame-ish-sphere-ish-building(s)
It seems that if a program could determine what it means than that
answers my question, that decomposition is deterministic? If so,
besides being way cool, that should resolve any concern about having
too large a vocabulary--so long as you know the roots and the rules,
you have a good chance of at least getting the concept that is trying
to be conveyed.