[Data-modeling] English Words

[Kurt Bollacker]

On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 04:58:08PM -0700, Arthur van Hoff wrote:
> I would say that the English noun "water" is different than the /en/water
> topic.

Of Course, but is the english display name for /en/water different
than the wordnet noun topic "water" meaning H2O?

> But both the English noun "water" and the French noun "eau" could be linked
> to the /en/water concept.

Those strings already are linked to /en/water as display names.  It's
just that you can't attach the Wordnet metadata to those strings.
That's what I was saying: You'd have two separate strings "water" that
are English names for essentially the same topic.  At best you've got
wasteful duplication.  At worst, they differ and you've got a
reconciliation mess that requires manual cleanup.

							Kurt :-)