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Date:         Tue, 6 Jul 1993 09:21:32 -0400
Reply-To: "Mark E. Shoulson" <shoulson@CTR.COLUMBIA.EDU>
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From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <shoulson@CTR.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject:      birthday?
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To: Erik Rauch <erikr@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU>
In-Reply-To:  juxlus's message of Tue, 6 Jul 1993 04:45:53 -0600
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>Date:         Tue, 6 Jul 1993 04:45:53 -0600
>From: juxlus <pfly%NYX.CS.DU.EDU@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
>X-To:         lojan-list <lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu>

>a quick question, i realized the other day its difficult to say "birthday".
>There is no gismu for "birth", although there is gutra for womb, which has
>the note, "metaphorically for nourishing, birth, etc", but i feel sorta
>clueless as to how one would use gutra as a basis for "birth".  And, even
>beyond, "birthday", which really means something more like, "anniversary of
>birth"...

Try:

jbena ben jbe      born                 'bear'               x1 is born to
x2 at time x3 and place x4; x1 is native to (fo) x4

giving, perhaps, "nu jbena kei djedi" for "birthday".

~mark