Re: [lojban] Re: [bpfk] Technical, Help Request: What information *should* a Lojban dictionary system have?

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 08:24:13PM -0400, Robert LeChevalier wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >Much more interesting to me is the back-end data: What sorts of
> >things *should* a Lojbanic dictionary store, ideally?
> >
> >What got this started is the realization that Lojban isn't
> >English, and that, in particular, the brivla definitions seem
> >anti-Lojbanic. When I see
> >
> >  x1 gets/procures/acquires/obtains/accepts x2 from source x3
> >
> >that kind of looks to me like a verb; I see the big thing in the
> >middle as being "the meaning" of "the verb".
> >
> >Lojban isn't like that: brivla are as much or more about the
> >*places* than about the central meaning-concept.
> >
> >This lead to me wondering what a definition format that really
> >focused on the places would look like; I don't really have an
> >answer yet, but this in turn lead to a lot of other stuff.
> 
> A lot of thought, as well as research on dictionary writing went
> into the format I used, which is what appears above.  The decisive
> factor that led to the above was brevity (which is a factor in
> most dictionaries that see print)

I'll respond to the rest later, but just to be clear: I have no
particular aversion to that format as such *for a print dictionary*.
My issue is with storing the definitions that way internally to the
database.

I was speculating on the nature of that format, it's true, but not
with any serious intent; just noodling.

-Robin

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