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Re: [lojban] Dictionary format
At 07:08 PM 04/17/2001 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
>It's a little compact for my taste, but it'd certainly work. Where do
>the definitions themselves go, though?
The definition is just "animal".
But that isn't a definition! That is just a keyword for the x1 of
danlu. Limiting "definitions" to keywords of x1 will encourage malrarna
usages that do not reflect the predicate grammar.
Any proper definition of a Lojban word MUST include all the places, and
pretty much treat those places as equals. A keyword is useful as a
mnemonic, or as an aid to writing an automated glosser but is not a definition.
lojbab
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