From cowan Tue Dec 5 17:03:32 1995 Subject: Re: RET: adjectives from names From: John Cowan To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban List) Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 17:03:32 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <199512051556.KAA06623@locke.ccil.org> from "Paulo Barreto" at Dec 5, 95 10:01:00 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 451 Status: OR Message-ID: la paulos. cusku di'e > Which Lojban construct renders the meaning of "Brownian movement", > "Boolean algebra" and similar adjectives derived from names? Traditionally simply "me la braun. nunmuvdu" and "me la bul. cmacrxaldjabri" (restoring a facsimile of the Arabic version there). Even with the new, more stringent definition of "me", these work because of the looseness of tanru. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.