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Re: [lojban] Mass import into jbovlaste ?
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On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 01:00:08PM -0600, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> While I disagree with najrut, I have to say that I really don't think it
> matters. I think I know Robin well enough to know it's not going to
> happen.
>
> Robin hasn't even promised to upload the words. All he's said is
> basically, when he has the time, he might do it.
>
> Doing anything beyond merely uploading them, any kind of special handling,
> would require even more time and effort.
>
> Messing with jbovlaste in any way is very low on Robin's priority list,
> especially considering his desire for jbovlaste 2.0 to be created to
> replace it.
>
> Conclusion: Robin might, /might/, at some time in the future upload all
> the ISO words to jbovlaste. But nothing more. But more likely, najrut will
> have to put them on there himself if he wants them there this year.
>
> As to the words themselves, my reason for not wanting them is because when
> it comes to all or nothing situations, I prefer nothing. The conversation
> that spawned those two huge lists was about the cultural gismu, and the
> fact that some cultures had a gismu, whereas others did not, and that this
> was an example of Lojban /not/ being culturally neutral. It was decided
> that the only way to be culturally neutral was either for all cultures to
> have there own words, which resulted in a huge list of words based on ISO
> codes of counrties and languages, or for none to have their own word,
> which resulted in the creation of this list:
>
> [1]banra'a
> [2]klura'a
> [3]cemra'a
> [4]jdara'a
> [5]selgu'era'a
> [6]tutra'a
>
> For example, {lu lo glibau to mintu la'oi English toi banra'a la'oi U.K.
> li'u mintu lu lo glibau cu brito lo bangu li'u .e zoi gy. English is the
> language of the U.K. .gy}.
>
> Personally, I would much rather remember 6 words that can be used for
> /any/ cultural reference, than a huge slew of words that can each only be
> used for one.
>
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 11:13 AM, .alyn.post.
> <[7]alyn.post@lodockikumazvati.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 09:40:14AM -0700, najrut wrote:
> > * *Also if you vote up one word from that list all the others should
> be voted
> > * *up automatically. They are all equal. None of them is better than
> any
> > * *other.
> >
>
> I need to request again that you preserve the threading of e-mail
> messages when you reply to them. *It is not clear at all to me
> which message you reply to, when I read only your reply. *I cannot
> tell what this e-mail is in reply to.
>
> Will you include the message you are replying to in your reply? *I
> will not be able to continue a conversation with you if I am
> confused by the ordering of your messages.
>
> -Alan
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> References
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> Visible links
> 1. http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/dict/banra%27a
> 2. http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/dict/klura%27a
> 3. http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/dict/cemra%27a
> 4. http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/dict/jdara%27a
> 5. http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/dict/selgu%27era%27a
> 6. http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/dict/tutra%27a
> 7. mailto:alyn.post@lodockikumazvati.org
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