From lojbab@lojban.org Wed Apr 18 10:39:09 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 18 Apr 2001 17:39:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 64244 invoked from network); 18 Apr 2001 17:39:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 18 Apr 2001 17:39:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-4.cais.net) (205.252.14.74) by mta3 with SMTP; 18 Apr 2001 17:39:07 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (dynamic116.cl7.cais.net [205.177.20.116]) by stmpy-4.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3IHd6s25365 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 13:39:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010418133741.00be7c40@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 13:42:40 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Dictionary format In-Reply-To: <20010417165926.E26996@digitalkingdom.org> References: <01041719525609.29765@neofelis> <01041501150602.16694@neofelis> <01041719201508.29765@neofelis> <20010417163914.C26996@digitalkingdom.org> <01041719525609.29765@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 04:59 PM 04/17/2001 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: >The Webster definition is: >1an-i-mal \'an-e-mel\ n >[L, fr. animale, neut. of animalis animate, fr. anima soul -- more > at ANIMATE] >(14c) >1: any of a kingdom (Animalia) of living beings typically differing > from plants in capacity for spontaneous movement and rapid motor > response to stimulation >2a: one of the lower animals as distinguished from human beings >2b: MAMMAL >3: a human being considered chiefly with regard to his physical or > nonrational nature; also: this nature >4: an individual with a particular interest or aptitude political animal ... the true professional in government --J. > M. Burns> >5: MATTER, THING Miller> >-- an-i-mal-like \-mel-,(l)[0xF5]^-k\ adj >-- an-i-mal-ness \-mel-nes\ n > >2animal adj >(1615) >1: of, relating to, or derived from animals >2a: of or relating to the physical or sentient as contrasted with the > intellectual or rational >2b: SENSUAL, FLESHLY >3: of or relating to the animal pole of an egg or to the part from > which ectoderm normally develops >syn see CARNAL >-- an-i-mal-ly \-me-le^-\ adv > > > >and if we were actually trying to do a real dictionary, we'd need to >have entries, or sub-entries, for each of those meanings. My original intent was to do exactly that, using a commonly available dictionary as the source of word meanings. Given their availability, I would probably use one of the out-of-copyright dictionaries now available on the net, which would have such information for words and definitions used prior to 75 years ago. But space would make this impossible (even if the volunteers were available) - the resulting text would necessarily be longer than the English-only dictionary, since it would have all that text as well as the Lojban. Printing costs are too high to include an English dictionary in with the E-L dictionary. 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