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[lojban] Re: emotions
And of course, the obligatory flame:
> Message: 18
> Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 00:32:13 -0400
> From: Robert LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>
> Subject: Re: emotions
>
> 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.
Your issue (on those particular words) is with Abbat, not with Kominek
or Powell. Your solution is to propose a canonical word for parasite,
not to vent revulsion. (And I remind you of our recent discussion on
big and small tents.)
>> Go stick your head in a pig.
>
> As a dictionary it is useless to me until the non-standard words are
> excluded. That presumably will be done by the byfy.
Since it's the only dictionary we really have outside the disparate
wordlists, and it is not yet standardised anyway, your rejection is
premature. It's certainly more useful than the vapourware dictionary
that LLG never produced. And any publication under bpfk auspices of a
dictionary, generated by jbovlaste or not, will be reviewed by the
bpfk. jbovlaste itself (which will continue to exist in the long term)
has its own democratic process of review; this may or may not be a good
or canonical thing, this may or may not fall under bpfk or LLG
auspices, but I trust that the project administrators will issue all
caveats and disclaimers necessary about non-canonical words (as long as
the baseline holds, at least). Jay's involved in it, for heaven's sake.
> 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.
Exptals are clearly delimited.
> 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.
When jbovlaste is closer to being a standard (and of course, jbovlaste
is very much evolving right now in its content), it will be trivial for
the programmers to add a little flag next to any expt'al word that
comes up on lookup. If you think it should right now as a matter of
priority, log a feature request.
Of course, I believe that anyone non-discriminating (that isn't going
to bother to look up the Lojban gloss that comes up, e.g. to check its
place structure) has no business speaking the language. (This will be
viewed as exclusionary, I'm sure.)
> 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.
Well, you know what I think of your "usage will decide", and how it
inherently undermines any baseline...
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* _Rhetorical Structure Theory: A Theory of Text Organisation_, 1987.
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