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--- Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 03:07:23PM +0200,
> Philip Newton wrote:
> > On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 11:44:16 -0800 (PST),
> Ryan Gray
> > <ryanpatgray@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > I would think that a logical language such
> as Lojban would have
> > > more precise words for these ideas.
> > 
> > I'm reminded of the Lojban proverb, "The
> price of infinite
> > precision is infinite verbosity". 
> 
> lo nu cusku se kai lo cimni ka satci cu se
> sarcu lo nu cusku ci'i da
> 
> Unfortunately, satci is (IMO) Wholly
> unsatisfying for this, and most
> other, uses of the English word "precision". 
> I've yet to come up
> with anything I like much better, though.
> 
> -Robin

What is wrong with {satci}?  Aside from it
seemingly being about deviations of numerical
values from the true value -- but that is the
home ground of precision and anything else is
metaphorical in English.  Presumably {satci} has
the same inherent metaphor (which, given {ni},
may not even be metaphorical in Lojban).
? {lo nu satci li ci'i cu se jdima lo nu cusku lo
cimni}?  Needs some alignment of subjects,
probably an agentive form of {satci} or maybe
matching {cusku}: {lo nu cusku lo satci be li
ci'i ...}. (or should that be {pi ci'i} for precision?)