Re: [lojban] Re: cusku - say or express?

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 09:11:09PM -0500, Michael Turniansky wrote:
>> I'm sorry. I'm a native English speaker, and much as I usually
>> argue with Xorxes, his point is very well taken.  And
>> Merriam-Webster agrees with him.
>
> Again: this isn't about whether he's correct as to the keyword
> matching the Lojban definition; he's obviously correct, as I've said
> several times.  This is about whether or not you'd rember that "a
> talker" is distinct from "a sayer" consistently when using (hundreds
> of) flashcards.
>

  I say that so many of the flashcard single word glosses are so
horribly bad (i.e misleading to the point of being useless) that
cusku's gloss is the least of worries.  I have to remember them by
complete English definition, because it's impossible to do so with the
glosses.
                   --gejyspa