Re: project idea (was Re: [lojban] Baby words: patience (i.e. .o'o) as a brivla)

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

On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 11:10:18AM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 3:29 AM, Robin Lee Powell
> <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> >
> > In general, the lack of brivla equivalent of all UI, and UI
> > equivalent of all emotional gismu, is pretty awful and I'd
> > really love to see someone take up fixing that as a project.
> 
> Since every cmavo has a Lojban definition in jbovlaste, someone
> already did... :)

*facepalm*

That doesn't fix the fact that looking up keywords doesn't work very
well, but you're right, of course, and I appreciate the work.

> Of course that doesn't mean many of the definitions can't be improved.
> I had nothing for patience, but that was because I couldn't see how it
> could be the opposite of anger (if it is, then "tolfengu" will do) 

Yeah, I've always found that one a bit odd; anger as opposite of
patience is OK, but the reverse not so much.

> so I went with "panpi". 

Oh, hey, that's pretty good.

> But the English definition of "o'o" has "de'acni". I remember
> having used "de'acre" some time.

*nod*

-Robin

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