From lojbab@access.digex.net Sat Mar 6 22:45:14 2010 Date: Sun May 14 13:39:00 1995 From: Bob LeChevalier To: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Subject: Re: TEXT: le gunse ku joi le lorxu X-From-Space-Date: Sun May 14 13:39:00 1995 X-From-Space-Address: lojbab@access.digex.net Message-ID: In a physics astronomy dept. and he doesn't know what orbital parameters are %^) Hey, you don't need to be rigidly technical in what goes in there - these are linguistic usages, and not scientific ones. An orbital parameter might be "lenu leni darno cu mitre li pa" if you are going around the stove at a distance of 1 meter. What I think is important is to exclude the metaphorical idea that, for example, Eastern European countries were "ssatellites" of the Soviet Union. Unless someone can come up with a metaphorical equivalent of the orbital parameters for a such a usage. Often times a place structure is defined to specifically constrain and delimit ssuch metaphors (usually to exclude malglicoisms, that being most of the initial developer's native language). lojbab