Re: CONLANG: Re: Vocabulary definition

["Bruce R. Gilson" <brg@NETCOM.COM>]

John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG> wrote:

>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.


This is why I felt that the Lojbanis did a bad thing when they decided to
declare it "baselined." But Lojbab and I have had arguments on that subject,
and my view was definitely not shared by the majority of the Lojban group. And
that, basically, is why I dropped the Lojban list. I felt I could not contrib-
ute what I wanted to, which was to help develop a language.

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