[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban-English full dictionary effort- request for assistance

[Yoav Nir <yoav.nir@gmail.com>]

Yes. I understand the technical difference between a Lojban-English  
dictionary such as jbovlaste and an English-Lojban dictionary such as  
proposed here.

I'm more worried that dictionary work is a scarce resource, and  
spending it on this new project (which benefits mainly people who  
translate stuff from English) would take away from jbovlaste, which  
benefits the entire community.

Besides, it's a huge project, and I don't think 26 people, each taking  
a letter are actually going to get it done.

On Jan 4, 2008, at 6:40 AM, Pierre Abbat wrote:

> On Thursday 03 January 2008 03:04, Yoav Nir wrote:
> > While I definitely appreciate the effort, doesn't this duplicate the
> > efforts of jbovlaste?
>
> Not exactly. Jbovlaste is a list of Lojban words with definitions in  
> English
> and other languages. He's proposing to write a list of English words  
> with
> definitions in Lojban. So jbovlaste has, e.g., "side of flatfish" on  
> the
> English side, because it is one of the places of {mlafi'e}, whereas  
> this
> glivlaste will have "than" explained in Lojban.
>
> Pierre