[lojban] Jbovlaste (was: Re: Re: ki'a)

[Arnt Richard Johansen <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Bob LeChevalier wrote:

> jbovlaste remains unofficial,

I understand what you are saying, but for anyone who are not familiar with 
the subtleties, I think I should clarify:

* Jbovlaste-the-project is an officially sanctioned project of the LLG.

* Jbovlaste-the-database contains data from multiple sources: the
  baselined gismu and cmavo lists (official), the pre-jbovlaste lujvo list
  compiled by Nora (unofficial, but imbued with some authority), lujvo and
  fu'ivla added by jbovlaste editors (unofficial), experimental cmavo
  added by jbovlaste editors (unofficial, and will probably never be
  recognised in their current form), and experimental gismu
  added by the editors (rampantly unofficial, and will probably never
  ever be made official).

* Jbovlaste-the-database is intended to, at one point in the future after
  the completion of the BPFK, be edited down to constitute a printed
  dictionary with only officially-sanctioned entries.

> and in any event there is little reason to suspect that an arbitrary 
> unfamiliar fu'ivla would be found therein.

In my experience, Jbovlaste is turning into a quite mature resource. When 
encountering an unfamiliar fu'ivla in writing, I usually check Jbovlaste 
first, with good hopes of turning up an entry. This is ESPECIALLY true if 
the fu'ivla is a type IV, because it takes more effort to construct such 
words, and they are therefore more likely to be documented.

--
Arnt Richard Johansen                                http://arj.nvg.org/
"My speech recognition software may have trouble with ordinary words, but
not with ketoprofen." --Magnus Itland


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