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"a translator that doesn't necessarily get
everything right, and may not produce
fully correct, idiomatic output."

This is closer to the dictionary definition, but is
it really what you want? Isn't everyone here trying
to learn (or have learned) lojban? Of what use is
a real translation?
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</pre><tt>In linguistics, a gloss is a word for word &quot;translation&quot; with the 
</tt><tt>translated words written immediately below the corresponding words of the 
</tt><tt>other language. At times a parenthetical word needed for structural 
</tt><tt>clarity will be added in brackets, but this is not common. Thus a 
</tt><tt>linguistic gloss meets your 2nd definition above, but really is more akin 
</tt><tt>to the first camp. Nora's glosser optionally does not include the brackets 
</tt><tt>(indeed you have to use the -p option to have it show them), but they seem 
</tt><tt>a logical option for some given that she chooses prepositions based on the 
</tt><tt>parser output, and because some complex Lojban sentences cannot be 
</tt><tt>understood from mere word-for-word glosses.
</tt><pre style="margin: 0em;">

</pre><tt>So Nora's parser/glosser fits both definitions, which really are not 
</tt><tt>incompatible.
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