[lojban] Re: Semantic Primes

[John E Clifford <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net>]

--- John E Clifford <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

 
> In any case, I see some real advantages to
> Lojban
> from your project.  Since Lojban gismu are
> meant
> to be monosemous, you will pin them down to a
> single item in the Wordnet set and thus
> explicitly get rid of the rivals: {djuno} for
> example is ^know^3, especially not 1 or 2.  It
> is, alas, not quite 3 even, since 3 allows
> "know"
> to be used when we only have supreme
> confiidence
> that something is the case even when it turns
> out
> not to be, {berti} in short. Thus, Lojban may

{bIrti}!

> have some useful reflections back onto Wordnet,
> by proposing other divisions of the same space
> (I
> can see someone arguing that {djuno}, while it
> excludes 1 and 2 of ^know^ might include some
> other cases (perhaps 9, for example)while still
> being offically monosemous within Lojban.
> 
> Go for it!