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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 17:11:03 -0500
From: "Steven D. Arnold" <yami@dementian.com>
Subject: Re: Dao De Jing [was Re: Promoting Lojban]
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> From: "Steven D. Arnold" <yami@dementian.com>
> 
>> NOTE: I've followed the use of {dadjo} because I don't know how to render
>> "dao" into Lojban.  However, {dadjo} is Taoist/Taoistic, not Tao.
>
> How about: munje tadji?  (The way of the universe)

Replying to my own mail, perhaps we could even make a lujvo out of it...I am
hardly an expert at lujvo-making, but would something like "mujytadji" work?
Then we'd have our own Lojban word for "Tao"....with a subtle shade of
meaning.  This could be taken in the global sense as the way the universe
works overall, or in the specific sense of the way some aspect of the
universe works, such as gravity.

mujytadji: the way of the universe; how the universe as a whole, or a
specific law of the universe, works.  x1 is the universe's way of doing x2
defined by rules x3.


steve