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

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Wednesday 02 January 2008 20:22, Bob LeChevalier wrote:
> 2) it falsely presumes that Lojban words will map exactly to English
> definitions (the "equivalent meaning, as precise as possible"). It also
> presumes that Lojban(ists) would necessarily WANT a lujvo for each
> English meaning.  Sometimes an English word will better map to a Lojban
> phrase.  Sometimes more than one Lojban word will map to a single
> English definition based on contextual features not found in the English
> definition.

Example: "element", in the chemical sense, has at least three Lojban 
translations: {cmuxu'i}, {xumcmu}, and {selratni}; depending on whether 
you're talking about the element's purity, compounds, or atoms, respectively.

phma


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