Jorge Llambías wrote:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Bob LeChevalier, President and Founder - LLG <lojbab@lojban.org> wrote:Pierre Abbat wrote:and add a new gismu meaning "x1 turns from x2 to x3",sounds like carna-klama (carkla) would meet that need.But doesn't "carkla" (or "carmu'u" if we don't want a means of transportation) involve translational motion? Like a tornado may carmu'u to one city from another?
It rotates, but I'm not sure of the connection between the rotation and the translational movement of a tornado. carjevmu'u perhaps
It seems that klama and muvdu
involve a change in position as a change of location, rather than a change in position as a change of posture.
I'm not sure why this is necessarily so. They refer to distinct origin and destination places, and a route. If all those can be specified meaningfully, I'm not sure translational movement is required.
But then I'm not sure that there is no translation, anyway. Turning would be a translation in polar coordinates of the direction of facing. The object does not translate, but its facing does.
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