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[lojban] Re: Another major jbovlaste update.



On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 07:10:44AM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 March 2003 06:38, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote:
> > Although I do think that many of the natlang words should not be
> > voted on at all. Having lots of entries like "butter source" and
> > "goodness standard" in the dictionary would be rather inane, IMAO.
> 
> I don't think it's wrong to have "butter source" in the dictionary,
> but a lot of the definitions of attitudinals are wrong. {ii}, for
> instance, should not be translated "fear". It's something you say when
> you're afraid, not something you say to talk about fear. Similarly,
> cruelty is kamkusru, not uunai.

So what would you use instead?

-Robin

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