[lojban] Re: .aunai and .a'unai

[Jorge Llambías <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On 5/5/05, Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/5/05, Adam COOPER <adamgarrigus@gmail.com> wrote:
> >  Maybe 'inclination' would be a better gloss than 'desire'.
> 
> Maybe all of the words could use two glosses.

Full definitions even. In the case of attitudinals, the glosses aren't
even very accurate because true glosses would have to be things 
like "Oh!", "Ah!", "Aha!", "Mmm...", etc. 

> I know there was an
> inclination to give every word a single gloss for the purposes of the
> vocabulary learning software, but that should hardly be extended to
> the definitions themselves. 

Indeed.

> So for instance, the Spanish word (IIRC) "bulto" has the glosses
> "bust, statue". Bust tells you that it's a bust, and statue tells you
> that it's the plaster-head kind of bust.

Hmm... that would be "busto", but "busto" can also be
"bust, bosom". "Bulto" is "bulk, package".

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