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Re: [lojban] Re: Suggestions Sought: NORALUJV and jbovlaste



At 08:47 PM 3/12/03 -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:36:06PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell scripsit:
> > NORALUJV cannot usefully be loaded into jbovlaste, because the
> > definition format in no way resembles the lojbanic standard.  For
> > example:
> >
> > fazyta'a                annoy+talk
> > fanza+tavla:  chatter:   x1 = tavla1 (talk) = fanza 1 (pest), x2 =
> > tavla2 (talked to), x3 = tavla3 (talk subject), x4 = tavla4 (talk
> > language), x5 = fanza2 (annoyed)
>
> Noralujv was originally in the standard you are talking about, but I
> ran it through a Perl program (or maybe an awk program) to expand the
> place structure names like "t1" to "tavla1".  I am stressed for time
> right now, but it shouldn't be that hard to write some code to do the
> reverse transformation.  The gismu names are right there in the third
> field for you, so you can figure out the minimum abbrevs in advance,
> remembering that "x" is never a valid abbreviation of any gismu.

OK, we're obviously talking about different standards.

x1 is a chatterer who chatters at x2 about x3 in language x4

And, by the way, fanza2 is clearly x2 of fazyta'a (i.e. equal to
tavla2), not x5.

It is quite possible that x1 chattering at x2 annoys a third party.




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