P Bjorn Madsen | To Oliver and George

• Autor: P Bjorn Madsen (“europidgin”)
• Tema: To Oliver and George
• Data: 2002-10-17 23:06
• Mesaje: 350 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

Hi Oliver and George.

I understand your questions and remarks to my list over missing words. I realize that I should have done a little bit more than just generate a list over missing words. At least the work should have been divided into more than one step.

In the long run I think that LFN master dictionary should explain each entry in LFN and not in English. But right now we need some dictionaries for beginners and other interested people and there the Universal Language Directory seems to be a useful but not perfect solution.

My purpose with the list over missing words was to extend the ULD dic-files. As I understand the system in ULD each entry should have only one meaning, not several as in most dictionaries. If we want several meanings of "excuse" then it should have two or three entries. Similar if we want a word both as noun and as verb it should have two entries.

In most cases I think that the most often used form will be enough.
But I'm not the linguist here around so I suggest that you, George, answer your own questions and/or discuss with Oliver.

In ULD the English dic-files is clearly the main file. It has the best explanations etc. I know it is a little - or a lot - problematic, but I suggest that we don't change this right now. In other words we need to fix the English entries first. And then use the English as base for the different translations.

I hope that I didn't course too much troubles by not thinking about the problems you found. Sorry!

Bjorn