On Wed, Jan 26, 2= 011 at 3:20 PM, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Lindar <lindarthebard@yahoo.com> wrote:
> (I'm keeping this here because newbies -should- be reading this. T= here are
> good lessons to be learned in what I'm saying here.)
> 1. Lujvo don't have to mean EXACTLY the sum of their components an= d nothing
> more. {nikyge'u} means like the English equivalent "big fish&= quot;, for example.
> {nunkei} doesn't mean 'playing', it means 'a game'= . You have to realise that
> lujvo exist to be more than just short tanru. For all intents and purp= oses,
> if we -say- that {pavdei} means "x1 is the first day of week x2&q= uot; then it
> means that. Oh well.
> 2. {pavmomdei} might be better for that purpose, but it lacks the whol= e
> day/week/month/year place either way unless we decide to arbitrarily a= dd it.
> 3. {detri} seems perfect. It has the appropriate places, and we should= use
> it for -something-. {lo seldetri be li pa} is "the first". I= t doesn't
> specify the week, so we can assume it means "Monday". We cou= ld also simply
> put {pavdetri} because it's the 1 day of ? week of ? month of ? ye= ar (cos we
> didn't specify), which means that it's a Monday.
> 4. Cycling colours? Gejyspa, I hate the colours you picked (because th= ere's
> no logical order to them). So, Red Yellow Green Cyan Blue Magenta Blac= k ?
> Sounds lovely to me. Primary Secondary Primary Secondary Primary Secon= dary
> Black. How you had it was Primary Tertiary Secondary Primary Secondary=
> Primary Tertiary, which makes little sense. So, xundei, peldei, ri'= ;odei,
> cicnydei, bladei, nukdei, xekydei.

xundei, najdei, peldei, ri'odje, cicnydei, bladei, zirdei

=A0No, it was in spectral order -- Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Cyan,
Blue, Violet.

=A0You are thinking additive, whereas I was doing subtractive colors.
I'm sorry, you've never owned a crayon box?

> Which reminds me, ctino needs to bring up
> eir colour proposal again to the BPFK. I really need to push that thro= ugh.
> 5. We're not adding a new gismu that means either of those things.= We have
> {detri} which already has that meaning. Make up a zi'evla if you w= ant to
> have those words and I'll probably end up using them.
> 6. If we're actually going to decide, let's bring it to the BP= FK with all of
> our ideas and ask the jatna for a decision.
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