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From: Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.hn.org>
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Subject: [lojban] directions
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 05:08:57 -0500
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Currently we have a set of gismu (berti, stuna, snanu, stici) and a set of 
tense markers (be'a, du'a, ne'u, vu'a) for denoting directions. The gismu can 
be made into lujvo, so we can say {le bloti cu bersicyberberti le gusydi'u} 
"the boat is north by east of the lighthouse", but how do we say "the boat is 
going east northeast"? Then there are directions in degrees, minutes, and 
seconds, such as {li nyxacipi'erexapi'enoxavy farna le fanmo le krasi be le 
nu caxmati xirma klama} (that one comes up in my CAD drawings because of 
roundoff error). How do we use one of those as a selbri or as a tense?

phma
-- 
li ze te'a ci vu'u ci bi'e te'a mu du
li ci su'i ze te'a mu bi'e vu'u ci