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Subject: Re: [lojban] How technical are gismu?
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:48:46 -0400
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On Tuesday, September 30, 2014 20:57:15 Romaji #### wrote:
> Uh... I don't believe I'm ready to translate that.
> I'm only beginning.
> Also, why say it's a long square/rectangle, when the dimensions are
> arbitrary, so it might be tall, or it might be even a square?

{clani} covers both "tall" and "long". {clakurfa}, which has only a noralujv 
definition, is glossed as "rectangle". Rectangles include squares, in 
mathematical terminology, and I see no need to change that when talking about 
math in Lojban.

Pierre
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