At 08:54 PM 06/02/2000 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
I wrote a shell script (it's not yet ready for public consumption) which, givena gismu, looks it up in lojban.voc and outputs the corresponding line of the other .voc files in the order Arabic, English, Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, and Russian. I look up "pixra", for example, and get: sura pikcr pintur xua citr kartin When I look up "bridi", I get the following: o broda var a20a predicate 1 Huh?? How do you pronouce "a20a" in Chinese? How do you pronounce "1" in Russian? What is "broda" doing in here?
The problem is that whoever made the .voc files (no idea) did not correctly process the original file, which is "finprims" in http://www.lojban.org, etymology directory. In that case, bridi and broda->brodu all share the same etymology and appear on successive lines, whereas in most cases the lines after a bridi entry is the etymology and that was not the case for this one word.
lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org