From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Apr 17 16:39:15 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 17 Apr 2001 23:39:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 25643 invoked from network); 17 Apr 2001 23:39:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 17 Apr 2001 23:39:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta1 with SMTP; 17 Apr 2001 23:39:14 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 14pf3y-0007Vz-00 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:39:14 -0700 Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:39:14 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Dictionary format Message-ID: <20010417163914.C26996@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <01041501150602.16694@neofelis> <20010417110657.P31963@digitalkingdom.org> <01041719201508.29765@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: <01041719201508.29765@neofelis>; from phma@oltronics.net on Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 07:08:09PM -0400 From: Robin Lee Powell On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 07:08:09PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > >On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 12:40:06AM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > >> I'm thinking that, besides the dictionary format we currently have > >> (jukni:juk:spider:x1 is a spider of species x2:sometimes long list of comments > >> and cross-references), which is good for the Web, > > > >You're kidding, right? I think it sucks rocks. > > Check out le gismu tersisku. And that would be....? > >It's a little compact for my taste, but it'd certainly work. Where do > >the definitions themselves go, though? > > The definition is just "animal". The place structure is in brackets. Ack. That's not good enough for me, but maybe I'm missing the point. Quite probably, even. > >Here's what I use: > > > > danlu dal da'u animal > > x1 is an animal/creature of species x2; x1 is > > biologically animate > > > > (cf. banfi, cinki, cipni, finpe, jukni, respa, since, > > mabru, bakni) > > And how would you format the English-Lojban side? Dunno. Probably: animal danlu [dal, da'u] x1 is an animal/creature of species x2; x1 is biologically animate (cf. banfi, cinki, cipni, finpe, jukni, respa, since, mabru, bakni) -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/