Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Fri, 1 Oct 1993 15:30:55 -0400 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Fri, 1 Oct 1993 15:30:45 -0400 Message-Id: <199310011930.AA24675@eli.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 7461; Fri, 01 Oct 93 15:29:02 EDT Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 8706; Fri, 01 Oct 93 15:31:41 EDT Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1993 15:28:26 EDT Reply-To: Jorge LLambias Sender: Lojban list From: Jorge LLambias Subject: Re: Eaton: You asked for it ... X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Erik Rauch Status: RO X-Status: X-From-Space-Date: Fri Oct 1 11:28:26 1993 X-From-Space-Address: @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET > JL> I don't so much want a word for "deserve", as one to serve as a > JL> tertanru for many lujvo (usually ending in -able in English) like > JL> "readable", "admirable", "credible", "trustable", "commendable", > JL> "lovable", "forgetable" "forgivable", "remarcable", "believable", > JL> "unusable", "considerable", ... > > I note that JCB considered the -ables to be a manifestation of the > potentiality of a bridi, thus needing no marker in optionally-marked Lojban. > > "se pensi" is something thinkable > "se sinma" is something estimable > "se tcidu" is something readable > "se krici" is something believable Then there's no problem with {selpinxe} for "beverage", and {seltcidu} for "text". In any case, "thinkable" would be "pensebla" in Esperanto, and this is what you get with {kakne}. What I want is something for "pensinda", something that it's worth your while to think about, that deserves being thought about. {mapti} seems to _fit_ perfectly here, that's why it would be nice if it had a vowel ending rafsi, because it would be very productive. But of course, it is not essential. -xau covers many of the cases, although it's not really the same thing. Jorge