Return-Path: Message-Id: From: snark!cowan Apparently-From: snark!cowan Subject: love, liking, etc. To: cbmvax!uunet!decwrl.dec.com!fernwood!well!jeannec (Jeanne C. Stapleton) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 16:54:39 EST In-Reply-To: <9102271828.AA21369@well.sf.ca.us>; from "Jeanne C. Stapleton" at Feb 27, 91 10:28 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL13] Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Tue Mar 5 10:56:22 1991 X-From-Space-Address: snark!cowan Jeanne C. Stapleton writes: > The discussion here has been so > ****ing right-brained, with everybody trying to flog each other to death > with reams of information, splitting hairs. Left-brained, I think you mean. Language is inherently such a function. > I'll pipe up again when we start working out all the different types of > words we need for what "love" now covers in English, "amour" in French, > whatever the equivalent expression is in Chinese. Why not start now? All you really need is a gismu list (if you need that by email, ask). The two basic words are: prami A loves B nelci A likes / is fond of B but Lojban's compounding power make all kinds of 2-place tanru useful and interesting: cinse prami A sexually loves B is the obvious starting place, but a determined search of the gismu list will turn up lots more. -- cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!cbmvax!snark!cowan e'osai ko sarji la lojban