Re: [lojban] jbovlaste natlang word voting question

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

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 08:17:08PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> 
> A jbovlaste question; if you don't care about how jbovlaste works or
> is laid out, move along.
> 
> I'm pondering the nature of natlang word voting; look at
> http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/natlang/en/computer%20program for
> example (if anyone can suggest a better example, where "better" is
> defined here as "more contention", please speak up).
> 
> I'm wondering if natlang word voting buys us anything.  I mean, a
> Lojban word has only one meaning, so it's not Ok for the second
> place of sampli to mean both "computer program" and "astronaut".
> :) But it *is* OK for "computer program" to map to both sampli and
> samtci, as occurs on that page.  I don't see a lot of value to
> preferring one over the other; maybe if they're both above water
> (a positive vote value) we should have both in the dictionary?
> 
> What do you all think?

Someone pointed out that you couldn't acutally derive that second
place of sampli from its components, so I've corrected that.  Try
http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/natlang/en/ball instead for an example
of multiple natlang usages; if the dictionary said something like
"ball - first place of bolci, second place of selboi", would that be
a bad thing?

-Robin