From hombre!uunet!cbmvax!snark!lojbab Thu Nov 1 06:38:16 1990 Return-Path: Received: by marob.masa.com (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.18.1 #18.1) id ; Thu, 1 Nov 90 06:38 EST Received: by hombre.MASA.COM (smail2.5) id AA27520; 1 Nov 90 06:23:37 EST (Thu) Received: from cbmvax.UUCP by uunet.uu.net (5.61/1.14) with UUCP id AA11020; Thu, 1 Nov 90 04:11:27 -0500 Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore Jan 13 1990) id AA25691; Thu, 1 Nov 90 03:32:28 EST Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (smail2.3) id AA08939; 1 Nov 90 04:03:20 EST (Thu) To: math.ucla.edu!jimc, lojban-list@snark.thyrsus.com Subject: Re: Organic quality of language Date: 1 Nov 90 04:03:20 EST (Thu) From: uunet!cbmvax!snark.thyrsus.com!lojbab Message-Id: <9011010403.AA08939@snark.thyrsus.com> Status: RO >Am I being Franco/Anglophilic, being used to a separate word for everything? Probably not. But you are being natural-languagic in wanting a word for each concept that YOU recognize as a truly distinct from everthing else. Thus the Chinese also make new words for each new concept too, though not as gismu, but rather as lujvo. I see Lojban's lujvo as being much more Chinese type of 1-word per concept (ooh neat tanru!! anyone want to try to turn it into Lojban??? Not as easy as it looks.) If "rage" means what you say, I would think "animal-like anger" to be more definitive a tanru than "animal-anger".