[lojban] Re: jbovlaste natlang word voting question

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

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 08:55:39PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> 
> Someone pointed out that you couldn't acutally derive that second
> place of sampli from its components, so I've corrected that.  Try
> http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/natlang/en/ball instead for an example
> of multiple natlang usages; if the dictionary said something like
> "ball - first place of bolci, second place of selboi", would that be
> a bad thing?

_In this particular case_ it would be a bad thing, because if we already know that ball is the first place of bolci, then it is kinda sorta tautological that it is the second place of selboi.

But I do think it is a good idea to have the _possibility_ of multiple Lojban word for one natlang word. A good example of why this is necessary is:

http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/natlang/en/science fiction

Here, there are two "live" definitions for "science fiction". More are still languishing in Noralujv. All are subtly different, and should be pointed to by the natlang entry for "science fiction". But it does not make sense to split "science fiction" into different senses, because it's not really polysemous.

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