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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: sunrise & sunset
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Jorge Llambías wrote:

>On 1/13/06, HeliodoR <exitconsole@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>But unless mentioning the sun was important for some reason, I might
>>>prefer something like {dorkra} and {dorfa'o} for "sunrise" and "sunset".
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>>Maybe {nundorcfa} is even less ambiguous - {dorkra} could be our central
>>star Sun, too: the source of daylight.
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>It loses the symmetry though.
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>{donri} is not "daylight" but "daytime". I'm not sure if the sun can be
>said to be its source. Maybe. (And what would the source of the
>nighttime be?)
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>Also possible are {ctefa'o} and {ctekra}. Or {ctefa'o} and {dorfa'o}.
>Or {dorkra} and {ctekra}.
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>All of these work for "sunrise" and "sunset" as time indicators,
>not for the actual event as in "we went to watch the sunset on the
>beach".
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>mu'o mi'e xorxes
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To be able to base sunrise and sunset off of either daytime or nighttime 
is a neat feature in my mind.  Originally, I was confused about origin 
of daytime, as I also confused daytime with daylight without thinking 
about it.

Thanks for you help,
Stephen Simmons


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