Re: [lojban-beginners] How to say "face down" or "facing"

Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] How to say "face down" or "facing"

From: Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:21:21 -0400

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Yes, but of course you are to the side of something (for example, you are to the side of the bed from the reference frame of a fly on the wall who is facing an adjacent wall). In fact you are to the side of infinitely many things. But since you are not specifying the selmla or the velmla, we really don't care what they are. We are merely extracting the termla as a useful way of specifying your orientation. (But I didn't mean for you to lose the lo ckana in the x2 of vreta. That should still be there -- "mi vreta lo ckana fi'o termla vo'e", for example).

--gejyspa

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Sebastian Fröjd <so.cool.ogi@gmail.com> wrote:

you mean termla? mi vreta fi'o termla lo ckana (that would be something like "I lie facing the bed to the side of something"?)

2011/10/18 Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>

Fair point! termla, of course. Thanks for the correction.

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:

the hell do locks have to do with anything? zo'o

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:

I would think you would want "...fi'o telmla lo ckana [/lo loldi]" But maybe that's just me.

--gejyspa

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:

On Tuesday 18 October 2011 05:42:18 Sebastian Fröjd wrote:
> I'm not proficient enough in lojban to help you with this one. I just
> notice that in swedish you almost never say that you're lying face up or
> face down. Instead you say that you're "lying on [your] back" or "lying on
> [your] belly". Perhaps that's easier to express in lojban.

That would be "mi vreta fi le trixe" or "mi vreta fi le crane", but x3
of "vreta" is not defined (x3 of "sanli" is, but not "zutse").

The directions "anterior" and "posterior" don't match the direction of
locomotion in humans the same way they do in most mammals. How is this
expressed in Lojban?

Pierre
--
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Já não percebe nada, já não percebe nada.

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