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

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

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 05:20:40PM +0200, Remo Dentato wrote:
> I would suggest to not put too much work on specifing the se- te-
> etc words. I fear that having a fixed sense for, say, "terdunda"
> would be misleading for newbies and useless for those more
> knoledgeable. The right way to translate the "places" of a brivla
> highly depend on the context.
> 
> I'm convinced that we should insist on making people understanding
> the place structure and use their creativity to find the right way
> to translate it in their language rather than suggest them that
> there is a *right* translation for that place.

I agree for {te dunda}, but not {terdunda}; the latter is a lujvo,
and as such should have a firm/strict definition like all other
brivla.

-Robin

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