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From: Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net>
Subject: Re: [lojban] word for "action"
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On Thursday 13 May 2004 16:31, xahlee.org wrote:
> what's the lojban word for "action"?
>
> context: i'm trying to name a file wwhere in English i'd like to call
> verbs.txt. In lojban, i'd like to say "action valsi".

{gauvla} - though I consider the brivla to be the Lojban verb, even though a 
lot of them correspond to common nouns, adjectives, and adverbs in other 
languages.

> btw, is speed "ni sultra" or "nilsutra"?

either {ni sutra} or {nilsutra}. {ni sultra} refers to the amount of 
something's behaving like curly hair.

phma
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