love, liking, etc.

[John Cowan <cbmvax!uunet!marob.masa.com!cowan>]

Jeanne C. Stapleton writes:
> The discussion here has been so
> ****ing right-brained, with everybody trying to flog each other to death
> with reams of information, splitting hairs.

Left-brained, I think you mean.  Language is inherently such a function.

> I'll pipe up again when we start working out all the different types of
> words we need for what "love" now covers in English, "amour" in French,
> whatever the equivalent expression is in Chinese.

Why not start now?  All you really need is a gismu list (if you need that
by email, ask).  The two basic words are:

prami	A loves B
nelci	A likes / is fond of B

but Lojban's compounding power make all kinds of 2-place tanru useful and
interesting:

cinse prami	A sexually loves B

is the obvious starting place, but a determined search of the gismu list
will turn up lots more.

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