Return-path: Envelope-to: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Delivery-date: Sat, 13 May 2006 04:59:39 -0700 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1Feslt-0000h2-Dp; Sat, 13 May 2006 04:59:00 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list jbovlaste); Sat, 13 May 2006 04:58:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1Fesll-0000gw-GR for jbovlaste-real@lojban.org; Sat, 13 May 2006 04:58:51 -0700 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=blackcat.ixazon.lan) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1Feslf-0000go-73 for jbovlaste@lojban.org; Sat, 13 May 2006 04:58:46 -0700 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F0EA9587; Sat, 13 May 2006 11:58:49 +0000 (UTC) From: Pierre Abbat To: jbovlaste@lojban.org Subject: [jbovlaste] Re: Terminology usage of words Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 07:58:42 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <1265995131.20060513141939@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <1265995131.20060513141939@mail.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605130758.45600.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: jbovlaste-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: jbovlaste-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: jbovlaste@lojban.org X-list: jbovlaste X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) Content-Length: 693 Lines: 21 On Saturday 13 May 2006 03:19, Yanis Batura wrote: > There are words that have a special meaning in the corresponding field. > For example, chess figures are called: > > pawn {sonci} > knight {xirma} or {xirno'i} > bishop {xanto} > rook {slanydi'u} > queen {noltruni'u} > king {noltrunau} or {nolraitru} If you use a brivla in a special terminological sense, the place structure must carry over, else the word becomes polysemous, which is not allowed for brivla. So if a pawn is a sonci, it's a soldier in some army. Which it is; the white pawn is a soldier in the army consisting of all white chessmen. But the bishop and the knight are not elephants or horses of any species. phma