Pierre Abbat wrote:
On Tuesday 14 August 2012 04:46:04 Jonathan Jones wrote:So, this has been going about for a bit. I'm sure most of you are already aware of it. Since this is the BPFK, I thought I'd see what the opinions of the people in charge of language changes etc. were. Specifically, what do the BPFK members think of doing the following: 1. Change the meaning of carna from "x1 turns/rotates/revolves around axis x2 in direction x3" to "x1 turns from x2 to x3" which has very little impact on usage thus far (all 144 instances of usage, that is). 2. Add two new gismu with the following meanings: word1: x1 is rotating counter-clockwise viewed from orientation x2 about rotational axis/axes (set if multiple) x3 word2: x1 is rotating clockwise viewed from orientation x2 about rotational axis/axes (set if multiple) x3I would prefer to keep "carna" as it is,
I agree.
specifying that x3 is stated according to the right-hand rule,
That is one problem with "clockwise" and "counterclockwise" in that one becomes the other if you change hands.
One does not need to explicitly specify right hand rule. That is probably the default, but it can be specified using BAI (probably ma'i).
> and add a new gismu meaning "x1 turns from
x2 to x3",
sounds like carna-klama (carkla) would meet that need. lojbab -- Bob LeChevalier lojbab@lojban.org www.lojban.org President and Founder, The Logical Language Group, Inc. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BPFK" group. To post to this group, send email to bpfk-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bpfk-list+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bpfk-list?hl=en.