From jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Sat Mar 6 22:45:21 2010 Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 20:24:07 EDT From: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Subject: Shades of blue To: Bob LeChevalier X-From-Space-Date: X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu Message-ID: Steven Belknap asks: > How would one say, > > Your eyes are slightly blue. lei do kanla cu tolmutce blanu > Your skin is somewhat blue. le do pilka cu nalmutce blanu > Your mood is rather blue. le do selcni cu milxe blanu > Your language is quite blue. le do bangu cu mutce blanu > Your blood is extremely blue. le do ciblu cu tcerai blanu Blue mood and language are strange. They wouldn't normally be said to be blue in Lojban. And: > >The way I'd like to interpret it is as the extent to which the sumti > >properly belong in the tersumti. If you take the view that membership > >of a category is not clear-cut but is a matter of degree, then I > >reckon it should be {ni} that allows us to speak of such a degree. > >Thus {lo ni ti blanu} would, roughly, mean "how blue this is". Maybe. Then I would say it is more or less equivalent to {le ka ti blanu la'u makau}. Jorge