From lojbab@lojban.org Wed Apr 18 10:19:13 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 18 Apr 2001 17:19:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 12505 invoked from network); 18 Apr 2001 17:19:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 18 Apr 2001 17:19:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-3.cais.net) (205.252.14.73) by mta2 with SMTP; 18 Apr 2001 17:19:12 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (dynamic116.cl7.cais.net [205.177.20.116]) by stmpy-3.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3IHJAj51098 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 13:19:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010418130456.00c49e40@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 13:22:45 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Dictionary format In-Reply-To: <01041719201508.29765@neofelis> References: <20010417110657.P31963@digitalkingdom.org> <01041501150602.16694@neofelis> <20010417110657.P31963@digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 07:08 PM 04/17/2001 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > >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". But that isn't a definition! That is just a keyword for the x1 of danlu. Limiting "definitions" to keywords of x1 will encourage malrarna usages that do not reflect the predicate grammar. Any proper definition of a Lojban word MUST include all the places, and pretty much treat those places as equals. A keyword is useful as a mnemonic, or as an aid to writing an automated glosser but is not a definition. 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