Helping with the BPFK for skilled Lojbanists who don't like formality.

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

[about making a dictionary]
> >> >What distinguishes this proposed dictionary from Jbovlaste?
> >> >
> >>
> >> Technically, jbovlaste is not quite official. (Someone correct
> >> me if I'm wrong.) We don't stand on formalities, so we treat it
> >> as official anyway; but it would be nice to get a PDF such as
> >> the one it generates and give it official imprimatur.
> >
> >I will vote against anything involving producing an official
> >dictionary until the BPFK is done.  If you want a dictionary,
> >help the BPFK.
> 
> OK, where do I start?
> 
> That's a far more worthy goal anyway

The thing is, to be a BPFK member you're going to have to accept a
certain amount of structure and formalism, and every time I point
you at structure and formalism you run the other way.

This is hardly unique to you, which is why I'm sending this out
publically.

So, let's take a crack at the proxy method, which has been discussed
but never used.

You want to help the BPFK with as little hassle as possible?

Do this:

1.  Go to
http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=BPFK+Sections&bl

2.  Pick a section that doesn't seem to have had any real work done
on it.  For comparison, a finished section looks like one of these:

http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=BPFK+Section%3A+Text+Structure+cmavo&bl

http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=BPFK+Section%3A+Causation+sumtcita&bl

http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=BPFK+Section%3A+Distance&bl

and unfinished sections look like this:

http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=BPFK+Section%3A+Non-Contact+Spatial&bl

That is, just the cmavo list.

If a section you want to work on is already "owned" by someone else,
but little or no real work has been done, that's totally OK.

3.  Write up a proposal for some or all of that section, and e-mail
it to me.

I will handle everything else.

How's that?

-Robin

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