[lojban-beginners] Re: la blupinxe nunjamna

[Efrain Caro <betsemes@gmail.com>]

On 3/6/10, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think "ze'e kukte" or "vitno kukte" would work better than "ci'iroi"
> for "eternally". "ci'iroi" is "an infinite number of times", so if she
> tastes good every third time for example, she could still be tasty an
> infinite number of times. "ci'iroi" might still be a compliment, but I
> don't know that being tasted so many times wouldn't be perceived as a
> measure of easy virtue in vampire culture. :)

Point taken. I just took ci'iroi as "eternally" from the dictionary
without stopping to think that {ci'i} actually means infinite.
Literally it would be impossible to be tasted an infinite number of
times, but the intention is just leaving a compliment.

> whatever else goes in x2 of kukte) is elided, so that leaves (2) as
> the only sensible interpretation. I would buy that argument, but just
> be aware that using comparative shortcuts like that is usually
> dispreferred in Lojban.

Yes, (2) is intended. Any reason why those shortcuts are dispreferred?

> I would say "pu'o cargau". "co'a" is the actual start, "pu'o" is the
> "about to" state, And what a wheel usually does is rotate rather than
> oscilate, but I guess it can oscilate too.

I used "oscilate" just because I didn't find something for "spin". Now
that I have the rafsi, I can find this:

carna [car] gismu x1 turns/rotates/revolves around axis x2 in direction x3

which is what I wanted to say. Thank you about {pu'o}.

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Efrain
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