Re: [lojban] Re: non-core translations

["Robert J. Chassell" <bob@RATTLESNAKE.COM>]

lojbab@lojban.org writes:

   Your former impression is correct.  The baselining clearly was intended to 
   freeze the place structures as well as the words and keywords.  I opposed 
   freezing the place structures but was outvoted.  ....

I hate the keywords, since they sometimes are misleading.  The place
structures define lojban, since they replicate it.  It was a good idea
to freeze them.

But as lojbab says:

   .... Even so, baseline or not, ANYTHING can be changed by consensus
   of the community ....

and the end of the freeze period is coming up.

The point I want to make -- and this is very relevant to people
creating dictionaries in non-English languages -- is that the place
structures tell you more about the meaning of the gismu than the
keyword.  Please look at the place structure!

   > When translating, for example, the most important thing is to get
   > a keyword for the gismu, ....

No!  Please don't!  Please look at and translate the place structures.
Ignore the keywords.

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