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[lojban] Re: emotions
At 03:28 PM 5/23/03 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >What's a dictionary for? :)
> >
> >http://www.lojban.org/jbovlaste/dict/parji
>
> Maybe he, like me, refuses to recognize words that are not Lojban.
>
> BTW, the inclusion of such things in jvovlaste means that I for
> one have no particular interest in using the thing. It cannot be
> a standard for the language until the byfy decides to weed out the
> garbage.
You've just rejected something on the order of 80 man-hours on the
basis of a *single* *word*.
It did unfortunately happen to be the first word I've ever looked up. I
can't help it that I feel extreme revulsion when it seems like my 15 years
of fighting for a solid baseline, with clear delineation between valid and
invalid usage according to the language prescription, is being undermined.
Go stick your head in a pig.
I am not rejecting the man-hours. I'm sure you and Jay have done a Very
Good Thing.
As a dictionary it is useless to me until the non-standard words are
excluded. That presumably will be done by the byfy. Because the policy of
its use allows standard and non-standard Lojban to be entered as if the two
were equal in value, I strongly question that policy. It means that
someone looking up the word for keyword X may get an invalid answer, and
non discriminating users (probably most people) will take that answer as
gospel. I can't support a policy of "usage will decide" along with a
policy that promotes non-baseline solutions as being equal to
baseline-compliant solutions.
lojbab
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