Return-Path: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@vms.dc.LSOFT.COM Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE (segate.sunet.se [192.36.125.6]) by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA12299 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 07:18:35 +0200 Message-Id: <199512100518.HAA12299@xiron.pc.helsinki.fi> Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id CD237DF7 ; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 6:18:35 +0100 Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 23:16:45 -0600 Reply-To: "Steven M. Belknap" Sender: Lojban list From: "Steven M. Belknap" Subject: PLI: aspects of To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 1206 Lines: 43 goran cusku dihe >Expressing "long stick" and "long time" analoguously (is >this correct?) is not a linguistic universal, but many languages I have >info on do so. To what extent should we worry about relativistic considerations? The tense operators are very general. In space-time the time dimension has a Sqrt[-1] factor when you take the sqrt of the sum of the squares of the differences ofthe time-space coordinates as the distance between events. >inE.g. some Amerindian just can't say that in the same way, >and would find it very illogical to treat time and space equally, but >I don't see how else can we do that in lojban. Maybe native americans find learning relativity to be more intuitive than euroamericans. > > It's been long since you've left. > >The only thing I can think of is > > lo temci be lenu do cliva cu clani xorxes cusku dihe >do pu zu cliva > You left long ago. That's nice. How about: ledo xruti ka cu darno ledo cliva ka lo temcycanlu cohomihe la stivn Steven M. Belknap, M.D. Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Medicine University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria email: sbelknap@uic.edu Voice: 309/671-3403 Fax: 309/671-8413