From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri May 15 08:55:11 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 15 May 2009 08:55:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M4zkc-0001vZ-RL for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 15 May 2009 08:55:11 -0700 Received: from ol.freeshell.org ([192.94.73.20] helo=sdf.lonestar.org) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M4zkT-0001sj-6N for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 15 May 2009 08:55:10 -0700 Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (IDENT:jwodder@iceland.freeshell.org [192.94.73.5]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.14.3/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n4FFsunk003719 for ; Fri, 15 May 2009 15:54:56 GMT Received: (from jwodder@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.14.3/8.12.8/Submit) id n4FFsulb008837 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 15 May 2009 15:54:56 GMT Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 15:54:56 +0000 From: Minimiscience To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: sides Message-ID: <20090515155454.GA28981@sdf.lonestar.org> References: <4de8c3930905150216n6be2a0a2mcf06cab38dbe54d6@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4de8c3930905150216n6be2a0a2mcf06cab38dbe54d6@mail.gmail.com> Organization: SDF Public Access UNIX System User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-archive-position: 1677 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: minimiscience@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners de'i li 15 pi'e 05 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. tijlan .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra. > There are FAhAs for "front", "back", "right", and "left", but not for > "side" in general, it seems. How would you express this location tense > as in "Buttons at side (There are buttons at the sides of the > garment)" without "mlana"? .skamyxatra There's no general FAhA for "side," but a number of them come close. Looking at the list, I see: {ne'a} - next to, approximating {re'o} - adjacent to, touching, contacting {te'e} - bordering, edged by, edging up to {zo'a} - tangential to, passing by Either "{re'o}" or "{te'e}" would probably be the best option in this case. mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun. -- genai loi pruce gi po'o loi se pruce cu cenba