Re: semantics

["Jorge J. Llambías" <jorge@intermedia.com.ar>]

>From: BestATN@aol.com
>
>How about a Lojban dictionary in Lojban?  There are lots of people on this
>list, and if each one wrote a definition for a single gismu, a lot of
>definitions would get written, especially if a format were chosen
beforehand
>to adhere to.  Has anyone ever written *any* definition in Lojban?  How did
>it turn out?


Yes, I have written and sent to the list some definitions. The format that I
used was something like this:

i zo ninmu zo'u  ko'a fetsi lo'e remna a lo'e re'asmi

i zo casnu zo'u  ko'a simxu le ka tavla fi ko'e

i zo dunda zo'u  ko'i cpacu ko'e ko'a

i zo djuno zo'u  ko'a krici ko'e ko'i ije ko'e jetnu ko'o

i zo klama zo'u  ko'a cliva ko'i ko'o ije ko'a litru ko'o ko'u
                             ije ko'o pluta ko'e ko'i

Of course, the definitions could be improved, but I think
using ko'a, ko'e, etc for x1, x2, x3 is a good method. In any case,
the definitions necessarily must give the full place structure of
the word being defined.

co'o mi'e xorxes