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[lojban-beginners] Re: Squares and rectangles



On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:11 PM, A. PIEKARSKI <totus@rogers.com> wrote:
> >
> > > For that matter what does vote information 100000 mean?
> >
> > It means that if you want some other definition to be preferred
> > over that one, you need to collect 100001 votes. It appears that
> > official definitions are given a handicap of 100000 votes. Seems
> > a little excessive, but then I'm not very officially-minded. :)
>
> Sorry to be a drag, what is 'official'?  I am confused because I was
> once criticised for using the term 'official lujvo'.

I don't think there are any offcial lujvo. Only official gismu and cmavo.
Did you find a lujvo with 100000 votes?

> Jorge, can you
> direct me to some web page where there is a description (for
> mere mortals) of the voting system so I won't keep pestering you
> with this?

I don't know of any. My impression is that nobody pays much
attention to the voting system, but in the (relatively very few)
cases where more than one definition is entered for a word,
the one that has more votes is the one that the jbovlaste search
will show you.

mu'o mi'e xorxes