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Re: [lojban] criteria for the dictionary
Sebastian Fröjd wrote:
Sure, I will try to contribute but first I would like to know the
frames. What to do and don't, and in what form. And consistency is a
good thing in my opinion.
Secondly I don't have a lot of time to read through all maillist either,
Nobody else does either, which is why this low priority topic is not
going to get decided.
so probably the wheel is being invented many times over and over again.
Good. The founders had ideas on such topics, but we hardly have a
monopoly on good ideas, and it is good that we no longer have the
authority to insist on ours.
Reinventing the wheel is only a problem when the reinvention is
non-productive. Word-making is never non-productive, as long as the
word is well-formed and usefully defined. The rules for being
well-formed are in CLL (which BTW allows for experimental cmavo but not
experimental gismu. Use a fu'ivla, and if you think it is important
enough to be a gismu, THEN (and only then) consider making it a Type 4
fu'ivla, and use the experimental fu'ivla rafsi if you need to make
compounds. If new gismu are ever added, it will likely be that the most
used type-4s will be considered.).
I tried to read backwards through the maillist once, but I soon give up,
and the BPFK section is good but incomplete.
BPFK is working only on cmavo and CLL. Anything else is premature.
With a better forum (like wordpress or similar) organised in separate
topics, it would be easier to find the information you're looking for,
and then it would also be a shorter way to start contributing (well you
can contribute anyway ofcourse, but I think you do a better work when
you're familiar with the discussions).
No one has time to be familiar with all of the discussions. The mailing
list is at least searchable. So is the wiki.
So with little time to read all mails, my strategy is simply to write
down all of my questions/propositions in the same mail and learn from
the response I get.
Most people who could answer your questions won't read a long email.
Though marking the post with topic "several questions" might help catch
attention.
A small number of questions is more likely to get answered.
Sorry for that. But still, if no one read "mail that
long" does that mean all proposals must be short?
Proposals are being officially ignored, regardless of how long they are.
I think some people are adding proposals to various wiki pages in hopes
that they will someday be considered, but "someday" is still far off.
Or is it even possible for someone non-BPFK to come with proposals?
It isn't even possible for someone *IN* BPFK to submit proposals on
topics not being addressed.
There aren't even procedures for doing so.
lojbab
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Bob LeChevalier lojbab@lojban.org www.lojban.org
President and Founder, The Logical Language Group, Inc.
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