Re: RELAY INSTRUCTIONS!!! was Re: new relay

What would break the rules?

For example, consider a langauge that makes a lot of compound words and
gives them different meanings according to gender.  First consider the
compound word situation:

"cupboard".  Today, my wife uses "cupboard" as a direct synonym for what
I call a "cabinet".  She does not say it to mean "a board upon which cups
are set", since she has used "cupboard" to refer to things that have
neiter boards in their construction nor cups in their use.  So, would I
be breaking the relay rules in my glossary to go:

cupboard:  cabinet

Or would I have to do this:

cup:  small vessel for holding liquids
board:  plank

But give no meaning for "cupboard", even though it is distinct from the
agglutinated meanings of "cup" and "board" in current usage?


And what if the language is even stranger than English.  Suppose there is
a language that says that /bav@n&nT/ is "fool" or "trickster" in one
gender "foreigner" in another, and "someone who worships the Evil Gods
that arrived here but a generation ago" in yet another?  Am I supposed to
give all meanings without noting which belongs to which gender?  If I
noted which meaning went with which gender, would that break the rules?

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