Subject: Re: [lojban] Dictionary format

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 19:47:23 -0400

On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>> Check out le gismu tersisku. 
>
>And that would be....?

http://aididit.dynip.com/~phma/gismu.php3

>> 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)

If you're going to provide a long explanation on the English-Lojban side, it
should be in Lojban, the rafsi should be English rafsi (such as tri- for
three), and the cross-references should be to English words.

phma