Subject: [lojban] Re: Suggestions Sought: NORALUJV and jbovlaste

From: Robert LeChevalier <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 17:33:35 -0500

At 08:47 PM 3/12/03 -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:36:06PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> > Robin Lee Powell scripsit:
> > > NORALUJV cannot usefully be loaded into jbovlaste, because the
> > > definition format in no way resembles the lojbanic standard. For
> > > example:
> > >
> > > fazyta'a annoy+talk
> > > fanza+tavla: chatter: x1 = tavla1 (talk) = fanza 1 (pest), x2 =
> > > tavla2 (talked to), x3 = tavla3 (talk subject), x4 = tavla4 (talk
> > > language), x5 = fanza2 (annoyed)
> >
> > Noralujv was originally in the standard you are talking about, but I
> > ran it through a Perl program (or maybe an awk program) to expand the
> > place structure names like "t1" to "tavla1". I am stressed for time
> > right now, but it shouldn't be that hard to write some code to do the
> > reverse transformation. The gismu names are right there in the third
> > field for you, so you can figure out the minimum abbrevs in advance,
> > remembering that "x" is never a valid abbreviation of any gismu.
>
>OK, we're obviously talking about different standards.
>
>x1 is a chatterer who chatters at x2 about x3 in language x4
>
>And, by the way, fanza2 is clearly x2 of fazyta'a (i.e. equal to
>tavla2), not x5.

It is quite possible that x1 chattering at x2 annoys a third party.

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