[jbovlaste] Re: Alice in Wonderland 03

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

I thought calling a mans facial hair "whiskers" was just a way to be funny or something.  Male facial hair is not whiskers.  I'm pretty sure that no human possesses whiskers.

I think I would tend to agree with zefram here.

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 8:55 AM, A. PIEKARSKI <totus@rogers.com> wrote:

>
> A. PIEKARSKI wrote:
> >1)
> >k1 zbikre k2=n2
> >k1 are the whiskers of k2=n2
> >from
> >k1 kerfa k2 lo nazbi be n2 n3 ku k3
>
> The distinguishing feature of whiskers is not their location but their
> function: they are sensory organs.  This distinguishes them from most
> nasal hair, and indeed they are found not only on faces but also on
> forelegs.  I suggest {gaskre} ({ganse kerfa}), with a place structure
> such as:
>
>     k1=g3 are the whiskers attached to k2=g1 at locus k3 for the
>     detection of stimuli g2 under conditions g4
>

But not all whiskers are sensory hairs (vibrissa).  My neighbour has a
few whiskers on his nose, but hardly sensory.  {zbikre} would still be
more appropriate.

However, {gaskre] seems a useful lujvo whose gloss would be:
whisker; sensory hair

totus