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On Tuesday, April 3, 2012 10:47:08 AM UTC+4, Escape Landsome wrote:
>
> > However, I don't think we need separate words of Lojban for categories
> > of smell. An odor is a combination of various volatile chemical
> > materials. If you need to express precisely an odor, you should
> > perform chemical analysis of the contents of the odor. Lojbanize the
> > result, and you will get an expression to the odor.
>
> Then by the same argument, should not a color be described as some
> wavelength only ?
>

Color is somewhat different. The range there is continuous whereas tongue 
and nose have only few distinct, non-overlapping receptors for each smell 
and taste.

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<br><br>On Tuesday, April 3, 2012 10:47:08 AM UTC+4, Escape Landsome wrote:=
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;bor=
der-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;">&gt; However, I don't think we=
 need separate words of Lojban for categories<br>&gt; of smell. An odor is =
a combination of various volatile chemical<br>&gt; materials. If you need t=
o express precisely an odor, you should<br>&gt; perform chemical analysis o=
f the contents of the odor. Lojbanize the<br>&gt; result, and you will get =
an expression to the odor.<p>Then by the same argument, should not a color =
be described as some<br>wavelength only ?<br></p></blockquote><div><br></di=
v><div>Color is somewhat different. The range there is continuous whereas t=
ongue and nose have only few distinct, non-overlapping receptors for each s=
mell and taste.</div>

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