[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban-English full dictionary effort- request for assistance

2008-01-07 Thread Michael Turniansky
task. I'm a workshop editor for oedilf.com (the omnificient English dictionary in limerick form), and even with 1274 members, and 48,000 definitions covered, we haven't even completed to through the words starting with Co yet, in 3 years of existence. --gejyspa X-arc

[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban-English full dictionary effort- request for assistance

2008-01-05 Thread Jon "Top Hat" Jones
I do not plan on making a lujvo for every English word in existence. If it can be appropriately translated into Lojban with a gismu and possibly a se,ve,te, or xe, then obviously that it what I will do. The reason I am doing this is few-fold: 1) I believe that by doing this, the extreme amount of

[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban-English full dictionary effort- request for assistance

2008-01-05 Thread Yoav Nir
Yes. I understand the technical difference between a Lojban-English dictionary such as jbovlaste and an English-Lojban dictionary such as proposed here. I'm more worried that dictionary work is a scarce resource, and spending it on this new project (which benefits mainly people who transl

[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban-English full dictionary effort- request for assistance

2008-01-03 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday 03 January 2008 03:04, Yoav Nir wrote: > While I definitely appreciate the effort, doesn't this duplicate the > efforts of jbovlaste? Not exactly. Jbovlaste is a list of Lojban words with definitions in English and other languages. He's proposing to write a list of English words with

[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban-English full dictionary effort- request for assistance

2008-01-03 Thread Yoav Nir
While I definitely appreciate the effort, doesn't this duplicate the efforts of jbovlaste? On Jan 3, 2008, at 2:35 AM, Jon Top Hat Jones wrote: I have been working on creating a full dictionary between English and Lojban, excepting place names. I'm using "Webster's New World Dictionary-Thesa

[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban-English full dictionary effort- request for assistance

2008-01-02 Thread Jon "Top Hat" Jones
> > The help I am requesting is three-fold: > 1: Help in completing the list- 61,000+ entries to transcibe is > painstaking work, I have yet to finish all the entries in "a" and haven't > even begun the actual translation efforts. To be more precise, by the above I mean for someone to take a lett