[lojban-beginners] Re: rapidez

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 6/7/09, tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/6/7 Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>:
>> On Sunday 07 June 2009 06:06:36 tijlan wrote:
>>> Would it be useful if there were a gismu for "speed", for "ni sutra ju'e
>>> masno"?
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>> What's wrong with "nilsutra"? There doesn't have to be a gismu for
>> everything.
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> Why not "nilmasno", then? Because it points to a certain polarity. And
> so does "nilsutra".
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> True, in some languages, the word for "speed" is lexically related to
> the word for "fast" (like the Spanish "rapidez" and "rápido", or the
> Japanese "速度" and "速い"); but this is not a universal tendency. Lojban
> cares for cultural neutrality, so the polarity-specific "nilsutra" may
> be questionable.
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> Also, if we had a gismu for the neutral sense of "speed", we could
> have derived two lujvo for "fast" and "slow" (i.e. "bu'a zei zmadu"
> and "bu'a zei mleca"). Make one get two free.
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> mu'o mi'e tijlan
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