On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Pierre Abbat
<phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
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
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