Re: [lojban] Re: lojban and PR

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Sunday 23 October 2011 13:11:31 .arpis. wrote:
> The language is not finalized yet (as evidenced by the {ji'i} 200
> discussion about {zo'e}).

Most of that discussion is incomprehensible to me, and probably to most 
Lojbanists.

> The language is not self-hosting (many definitions of words, especially
> gismu, rely on another language, often English, to be understood)

A language can never be exactly defined in terms of itself, so that's 
generally not a problem. I have no problem with "rozgu" or "djacu" 
or "lanme". I do have a problem with "jbari", as it's defined in terms of 
English "berry", which is polysemous. One definition includes strawberries 
and raspberries and blueberries but excludes tomatoes and oranges; the other 
does the reverse.

Pierre
-- 
.i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do
.ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga
.icu'u la ma'atman.

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