[lojban] Re: [lojban-beginners] Lojban-English full dictionary effort- request for assistance

[Yoav Nir <yoav.nir@gmail.com>]

While I definitely appreciate the effort, doesn't this duplicate the  
efforts of jbovlaste?

On Jan 3, 2008, at 2:35 AM, Jon Top Hat Jones wrote:

> I have been working on creating a full dictionary between English  
> and Lojban, excepting place names.
> I'm using "Webster's New World Dictionary-Thesaurus" 2nd Edition,  
> (c)2002 to do this.
>
> Basically, what I am doing is going through the book, and listing  
> every entry with it's various meanings, then ascribing the following:
> 1: a gismu/ tanru with equivalent meaning, as precise as possible
> 2: a lujvo if applicable, built from the tanru from (1)
> 3: a fu'ivla for those of who that like such things
>
> When I have finished the "a"s, I will be formatting it into a HTML- 
> compatible table and posting it onto my geocities account, or the  
> Lojban wiki, or both(?).
>
> The help I am requesting is three-fold:
> 1: Help in completing the list- 61,000+ entries to transcibe is  
> painstaking work, I have yet to finish all the entries in "a" and  
> haven't even begun the actual translation efforts.
> 2: Help in pruning the list, i.e., deciding which English language  
> entries to disregard, such as Aeneas, Atlanta, Aegean, etc. I am  
> currently excluding all proper nouns and English grammar words,  
> although I believe maybe the grammar exclusion was a bad idea....
> 3: Help in translation: Once the table is up on the wiki, I would  
> appreciate help in translating the various definitions into Lojban.
>
> Attached is an example of the table format.
>
> --
> mu'o mi'e .topy'at.
>
> .i.a'o.e'e ko klama le bende pe denpa bu <example.htm>



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