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Re: Digest Number 374
- Subject: Re: Digest Number 374
- From: BestATN@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 23:15:54 EST
In a message dated 2/25/2000 5:32:34 AM Eastern Standard Time,
lojban@onelist.com writes:
>
> I like at the lujvo that the TLI group is stuck with because of bad
> decisions by JCB. TLI has not baselined their language, but (so far as we
> know) their lexicon has been frozen in concrete in terms of bad tanru. (Of
> course we don't know this, since we don't have the dictionary, but I would
> be mildly surprised if "man-do" for "manning a ship" was
> changed. Certainly Lognet has never announced any paring or replacement
of
> bad metaphors.)
>
they aren't stuck with bad lujvo. anyone can make a new word whenever he
wants. getting the current ones out of the dictionary might be a chore
though.
(BTW, what does " I like at the lujvo " mean? look at them? )
Steven