Re: Vocabulary definition

[John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>]

Claudio Gnoli wrote (on Conlang):

> Which are the most "useful" meanings? I suppose this problem was
> faced when the basic Lojban vocabulary was defined.

It should have been, certainly.  The Lojban place structure list,
which contains entries of the form:

klama: x1 goes/comes to x2 from x3 via route x4 using means x5

has been obsessively reviewed and revised and re-reviewed and
re-revised, but it's a tremendous job: very few people have the
fortitude to process 1350 or so entries, and tend to run out of
steam somewhere in the Fs.

In essence, this is one of those jobs that is not so much
finished as abandoned.  There have been various attempts at
rationalizing entries that should be parallel, sometimes successfully,
sometimes not.

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John Cowan                                              cowan@ccil.org
                        e'osai ko sarji la lojban