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Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 07:12:10 -0500
From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>
Subject: Re: rights
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At 10:58 AM 1/17/99 -0300, =?US-ASCII?Q?Jorge_J._Llamb=EDas?= wrote:
>From: "=?US-ASCII?Q?Jorge_J._Llamb=EDas?=" <jorge@intermedia.com.ar>
>>From: Robin Turner <robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR>
>>How would you render "right" (as in "human rights") into Lojban?
>>I've searched my makeshift dictionary and can only find right as
>>in direction, or as in "correct".
>i pe'i zo selzi'e
>
>co'o mi'e xorxes

This one has been discussed.  I ought to add it to the dictionary.  The
concept of "rights" was a key justification for the (relatively late)
addition of jinzi innate.  The sense of English "right" that implies an
innate entitlement is thus more akin to jinzi than zifre.  Probably most
usages could be convered by combining the two jizyselzi'e

lojbab