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Subject: Re: [lojban] gismu thesaurus
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From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>

At 11:21 PM 06/24/2001 +0100, And Rosta wrote:
>Reading about botpi, kevna, et al. reminds me to wonder
>whether we have a thesaurus-like gismu list sorted by
>semantic category (ideally without bias to the x1). I
>feel that that ought to be the primary reference
>format, and constructing it would help to home in on
>the core meaning of the gismu.
>
>I do remember that individuals have constructed thesauruses
>(and Colin Fine made a keyword list for every gismu place),
>but what is currently available along these lines?

Colin's and others that have been constructed are all up on the Lojban web 
pages. No one has done a thesaurus not biased towards the x1 because we 
aren't entirely sure how to do it.

lojbab
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