Re: [lojban] Survey about learning the basic vocabulary

[Wuzzy <almikes@aol.com>]

On Sun, 10 Nov 2013 14:07:20 -0500
Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org> wrote:
> Knowing a word by its definition in another language can lead to
> errors. 
I disagree. If the definition is disambiguated, it is not the case.
Disambiguation is especially important for Lojban. It is so important
that jbovlaste added the “sense” field for the gloss words.

So the “sense” of a word is also part of the definition. If there is
no sense provided, well, the definition sucks.
Stupid: The gismu gloss words on jbovlaste make _no_ use of the “sense”
field, despite the fact that they often use ambigous words. :-( Well,
that needs to be fixed, I think.
But at least I was always able to know the sense by reading the full
definition, so I simply just ignore the gloss word. And it works.

If one just remembered the gloss word, one did not remember the full
definition.

> Similarly one can know that "jdari" means "hard", and "nandu" means
> "hard", and pick the wrong one.
No wonder, these are only the gloss words, not the definitions.

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