From lojbab@lojban.org Fri Jun 02 19:32:04 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27035 invoked from network); 3 Jun 2000 02:32:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 3 Jun 2000 02:32:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-4.cais.net) (205.252.14.74) by mta1 with SMTP; 3 Jun 2000 02:32:01 -0000 Received: from bob (dynamic78.cl7.cais.net [205.177.20.78]) by stmpy-4.cais.net (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e532W0527884 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 22:32:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lojbab@lojban.org) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000602220633.00b23a50@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 22:32:52 -0400 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Etymology of "bridi"? In-Reply-To: <0006022100320A.01359@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 08:54 PM 06/02/2000 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: >I wrote a shell script (it's not yet ready for public consumption) which, >given >a gismu, looks it up in lojban.voc and outputs the corresponding line of the >other .voc files in the order Arabic, English, Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, and >Russian. I look up "pixra", for example, and get: >sura >pikcr >pintur >xua >citr >kartin >When I look up "bridi", I get the following: >o >broda >var >a20a >predicate >1 >Huh?? How do you pronouce "a20a" in Chinese? How do you pronounce "1" in >Russian? What is "broda" doing in here? The problem is that whoever made the .voc files (no idea) did not correctly process the original file, which is "finprims" in http://www.lojban.org, etymology directory. In that case, bridi and broda->brodu all share the same etymology and appear on successive lines, whereas in most cases the lines after a bridi entry is the etymology and that was not the case for this one word. lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org