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Re: web dictionary development (was: Re: [lojban] NickFest 2)
At 11:02 PM 04/24/2001 -0600, Jay Kominek wrote:
I think a couple of people looking over and discussing the construction
of a lujvo is as good as grabbing it from a single person's in-context
usage.
The difference is the classic dictionary writer's tension between a
dictionary being descriptive or prescriptive. Dictionaries are supposed to
describe actual usage, not theoretical possibilities. The first Lojban
dictionary will necessarily have considerable prescriptive force (for the 5
year period at least), but in the long term it too must become
descriptive. A Lojban word that is talked about in English is not really
Lojban (on the other hand, many of the words in the lujvo file are
precisely words that were merely talked about rather than used - I used no
filtering to process only Lojban words that appeared in Lojban text, since
I don't have an automatic way to recognize text as being Lojban).
lojbab
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