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[lojban] Re: Lojban-English full dictionary effort- request for assistance



On Jan 3, 2008 9:22 PM, Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org> wrote:
>
> Apparently you are discussing a different question than I am %^)

Apparently yes.

>  > And among those tens,
> > not one that I could find is meant as sel(xxxyyy), they are all
> > (selxxx)yyy.
>
> One would think that the former would be expressed as selkemxxxyyy.

Precisely. Hence my initial comment:

<<
> If you coin a lujvo without
>determining its place structure, you miss out on the possibility that
>sel[xxxxxx] might be the best lujvo for an English concept.

I suspect such lujvo will be very rare, because the tendency seems
to be to interpret them as [selxxx]xxx.
>>

Hopefully my comment has become clear now.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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