[lojban-beginners] Re: dicussions about basic vocabulary

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 07:47:06PM +0200, m.kornig@sondal.net wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> Recently, I've asked for help to find Lojban equivalents to
> "apparently simple" words like "neighbo(u)r" or "bicycle". And I
> sometimes got several different replies and you have started to
> discuss alternatives, meanings, pros and cons, correcting each
> other, etc.
> 
> Is that because this is a beginners mailing list, i.e. because
> some of you participants are beginners yourself and struggle with
> words exactly as I do?

Yes.

> Or is it some intrinsic feature of Lojban itself? Meaning that the
> Lojban vocabulary is not well defined (yet)?

Yes.

We are monstrously short on vocab compared to a natural language.
OTOH, we're *way* ahead of, say, Klingon.

I'm planning on making jbovlaste easier to use to try to make this
better in the near future.

-Robin