From graywyvern@hotmail.com Tue Feb 29 11:36:41 2000 X-Digest-Num: 379 Message-ID: <44114.379.2101.959273826@eGroups.com> Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:36:41 PST From: "michael helsem" Subject: 2 lujvo X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 2101 1) there is a word i am using, "sharawadgi", to indicate things which contain opposites such as a pattern of red & green, or hot & cold (Baked Alaska), ktp. i am thinking the way to say this in Lojban is 'opposite-quality-conjunction-quality' DUTKAIRKAXYKAI. 2) if one tends to count by fives of things (as we think in "twos" (opposites), would this be: 'five-basis' MUMCMU, 'fivesome-basis' MUMEMCMU; or would the latter become, as a lujvo, MUMYMEMCMU ? 3) & also, how to talk about thinking-in terms of-a given count-as basic? 'basic unit of counted things' CMUTERKANCU, or 'basic set of things counted' CMUSELKANCU ? (i am leaning toward the latter). co'omi'e maikl. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com