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On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>
> The sentiment was "Yay! You changed position from sitting to
> crawling!  Well done!", and I just got completely stuck; how do we
> talk about the difference between a person sitting and a person
> crawling?

ui .i'e do cenba co'a lo nu zutse kei co'u lo nu cpare

The difficult part is a word or phrase for "position" as in "stance",
but that's the same problem we have for all such names of properties
("shape", "size", "age", "height", and so on). We have words for
specific types of them, but not for the general property.

You could also say "do binxo lo cpare co'a lo nu zutse".

> That is: changes in the position of the parts of an object that
> change nothing intrinsic about it?

Something like "cenba lo ka lo pagbu be ce'u cu zvati ma kau".

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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