Re: [lojban] Re: emotions

[Robert LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 03:28 PM 5/23/03 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > >What's a dictionary for? :)
> > >
> > >http://www.lojban.org/jbovlaste/dict/parji
> >
> > Maybe he, like me, refuses to recognize words that are not Lojban.
> >
> > BTW, the inclusion of such things in jvovlaste means that I for
> > one have no particular interest in using the thing.  It cannot be
> > a standard for the language until the byfy decides to weed out the
> > garbage.
>
> You've just rejected something on the order of 80 man-hours on the
> basis of a *single* *word*.

It did unfortunately happen to be the first word I've ever looked up.  I 
can't help it that I feel extreme revulsion when it seems like my 15 years 
of fighting for a solid baseline, with clear delineation between valid and 
invalid usage according to the language prescription, is being undermined.

> Go stick your head in a pig.

I am not rejecting the man-hours.  I'm sure you and Jay have done a Very 
Good Thing.

As a dictionary it is useless to me until the non-standard words are 
excluded.  That presumably will be done by the byfy.  Because the policy of 
its use allows standard and non-standard Lojban to be entered as if the two 
were equal in value, I strongly question that policy.  It means that 
someone looking up the word for keyword X may get an invalid answer, and 
non discriminating users (probably most people) will take that answer as 
gospel.  I can't support a policy of "usage will decide" along with a 
policy that promotes non-baseline solutions as being equal to 
baseline-compliant solutions.

lojbab

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