Re: [lojban] Re: Anki and tatoeba

[Remo Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com>]

Well I set it, let's see how many will participate.

http://doodle.com/yscfgmu4k4y487mp

Remo

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Oren <get.oren@gmail.com> wrote:
> My reading of the situation is:
> 1) newer lojbanists seem to know how to not be grammatically wrong
> 2) more experienced lojbanists seem not to be too concerned with
> homogenization
> 3) the number of currently contributing lojbanists is pretty small
> ...so, I'll take a poll, but I think that Ross's "let usage decide" rule
> might just make most sense.
>
> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 09:17, Remo Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm a little bit confused as I don't really see how the "dialects"
>> aspect is a problem.
>>
>> I do expect that different people would say thing differently. I might
>> say {le mlatu cu klama} and someone else could say {le mlatu ku klama}
>> and that's perfectly right.
>>
>> Each contributor of Tatoeba will add the sentences as he/she see fit.
>> Since there can be more than one translation for a sentence I don't
>> see a problem if both are entered.
>>
>> So, to me, the principle should be that the sentence we add to tatoeba
>> is one that *someone of us* would say. In other words, it shouldn't be
>> too convoluted. This means to me that we *should not* add a sentence
>> with all the elidable terminators just for the sake of doing it.
>>
>> As for the initial {.i} I'm still of the idea that we shouldn't put it.
>>
>> It seems odd to me that the translation of "the cat goes" would be
>> {ni'o le mlatu cu klama fa'o}  or {.i le mlatu cu klama}.
>>
>> The {ni'o}, {fa'o} and {.i} presence depends on the position of the
>> sentence in a larger text, not on the translation itself.
>>
>> Do you think we should set a doodle poll to record the preferences?
>>
>> Remo
>>
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