[lojban-beginners] Re: Hello, and owning things..

[Fiat Knox <fiat_knox@yahoo.co.uk>]

What algorithm does the jbovlaste search engine use?

--- Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/31/08, Mark <mark@antelope.nildram.co.uk> wrote:

> > I guess what confused me on this was the use of "lo mi
> karce cu va
> > zvati" for "my car is there", in Everyday Lojban Lesson
> 1.  I can't
> > see why this is "lo" and not "le" - surely the thing
> that's over there
> > is a particular car of his that he's thinking of.

> It could be "le" as well. "lo" is just more general, it
> covers both
> the generic and the particular cases, it just doesn't
> emphasize
> that it's about a partcular one. That use of "lo" there
> is perfectly
> fine. In fact, one could use "lo" always and forget about
> every
> other gadri (except "la").
> 
> > Also, is there some kind of problem with jbovlaste?
> 
> Its searches are quite horrible, yes.
> 
> >search for "success" and it'll find nothing at all,
> > even though snada is in the fortunecity dictionary;
> 
> But you have to search for "succeed", of course! :)
> 
> mu'o mi'e xorxes
> 
> 
> 
> 


Peace,


Alex.

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