Re: [lojban] Lojban Wiktionary closure proposal.

[Escape Landsome <escaaape@gmail.com>]

>> << Attempting to describe Lojban words in Lojban is pretty silly, >>
>>
>> There is a point.   By its own nature, isn't lojban vocabulary...
>> "tautologic" ?
>>
> No more so than the definitions of words in any language.


Well, yes and no.

Or course, one can say that a chair is something to sit on, but when
the language is specified in such a way that a chair is encoded as a
"to-sit-on-thing" in its morphology itself, a big part of the
definition process is automatized and thus, "silly".

Remains only the pragmatic import, not the semantic one.

So that a lojban encyclopedia makes sense, but not really a lojban dictionary.

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