[lojban-beginners] Re: How to use skari?

[ianek <janek37@gmail.com>]

Yes. I think "the colour cyan" is "lo ka cicna".

mu'o mi'e ianek

On Oct 29, 5:51 pm, Felipe Gonçalves Assis <felipeg.as...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Isn't cicna1 "something cyan", instead of "the colour cyan"?
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> On 28 October 2011 03:12, Jonathan Jones <eyeo...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Well, I don't like the way jbofi'e parsed it, but it sounds right to me:
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> > Intended meaning: "Greenish-blue is the colour of the ocean."
> > Lojban bridi: {lo cicna cu se skari lo braxamsi}
> > Jbofi'e parse: [1(2[skari2 (hue(s)) :] lo any/some cicna cyan(s))2 cu
> > is/does «3se skari being hue(s)»3 (4[skari1 (thing(s) having colour) :] lo
> > any/some braxamsi big sea(s)/ocean(s)(s))4]1
> > (Note: I used {braxamsi} rather than {xamsi} because {braxamsi} implies that
> > the ocean is an Earthly one (based on the comments on the words)- oceans on
> > other planets may be different colours.)
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> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Patrick Finneran <sonarman...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
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> >> The definition of {skari} is x1 is/appears to be of color/hue x2 as
> >> perceived/seen by x3 under conditions x4.  The way I read that, x1 is
> >> a colored object (i.e., an apple), and x2 is the color (i.e., red).
> >> However, the word is apparently glossed as "color".  I would imagine
> >> that the way to say "color", as in "favorite color" would be {selska},
> >> since that fits with how I'm reading the place structure of {skari} in
> >> the first place.  Am I wrong on this?  Am I right?  This is just one
> >> of the more confusing gismu I've ran across.
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