Return-path: Envelope-to: jbovlaste-admin@lojban.org Delivery-date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 11:07:43 -0800 Received: from [192.168.123.254] (port=56562 helo=web.digitalkingdom.org) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.94) (envelope-from ) id 1l07mO-008scC-LT for jbovlaste-admin@lojban.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2021 10:55:35 -0800 Received: by web.digitalkingdom.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 14 Jan 2021 18:55:32 +0000 From: "Apache" To: curtis289@att.net Reply-To: webmaster@lojban.org Subject: [jvsw] Definition Added At Word clakemkamymeckezrai -- By krtisfranks Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 18:55:32 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Message-Id: X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) X-Spam_score: -2.9 X-Spam_score_int: -28 X-Spam_bar: -- In jbovlaste, the user krtisfranks has added a definition of "clakemkamymeckezrai" in the language "English". New Data: Definition: $x_1$ (object/dimension) is shortest among set $x_2$ (set) in respective dimensions $x_3$ (default: the longest for each). Notes: Equivalent to "{toryrai}". Partially an .{u'ivla}, but with a little bit of philosophical underpinning: We should measure things by how much they have rather than how much they lack (good: how bright, how strong, how rich; bad: how dark, how weak, how poor) because 0 is the natural starting point and the quantity usually can be increased without upper bound. So, longness is a thing and shortness is a figment of our collective imagination, so to speak. So, "shortest" should really be "least long". Meanwhile, "{traji}" can accept either valence for extremeness, but defaults to the positive (id est: "most"), so we need to cajole it into the opposite ("least"). Thus, we get this long, gross word. Jargon: Gloss Keywords: Word: shortest, In Sense: Place Keywords: You can go to to see it.