Return-Path: <@SEGATE.SUNET.SE:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET> Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0sAxBD-0009acC; Mon, 15 May 95 13:15 EET DST Message-Id: Received: from segate.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v0.1a) with SMTP id FE991991 ; Mon, 15 May 1995 12:15:13 +0100 Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 06:12:23 -0400 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: TEXT: le gunse ku joi le lorxu X-To: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU X-cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 782 Lines: 16 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