From cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG Sat Mar 6 22:44:45 2010 Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 13:24:30 -0400 From: John Cowan Subject: Re: TEXT: le gunse ku joi le lorxu To: Bob LeChevalier X-From-Space-Date: Mon May 15 18:31:08 1995 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu Message-ID: la xorxes. pu cusku di'e > > > Why not? I don't like the many irrelevant places of {klama}, but what > > > can I do? Any suggestions for how to say "go around the oven"? mi cusku di'e > > "mluni le toknu". xy. cusku di'e > i mluni le toknu ma ma > > The extra places of {mluni} are even more weird than those of {klama}! > Otherwise it would be a great way to say it. True, true. > (How are those places filled anyway? Why does {mluni} have a place for > "characteristics", whatever they are, and {klama} doesn't? How are > orbital parameters x4 specified? Wouldn't space tenses work much better > for that?) I suspect all that stuff is there because {la lojbab. purci ke tarske djuno}. Anyway, I didn't mean the suggestion seriously. I suspect that that the existence of x4 requires that the movement of x1 around x2 be ballistic in nature: a ball can {mluni}, but a person doesn't really {mluni} an oven. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.