On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Lindar <
lindarthebard@yahoo.com> wrote:
> (I'm keeping this here because newbies -should- be reading this. There are
> good lessons to be learned in what I'm saying here.)
> 1. Lujvo don't have to mean EXACTLY the sum of their components and nothing
> more. {nikyge'u} means like the English equivalent "big fish", for example.
> {nunkei} doesn't mean 'playing', it means 'a game'. You have to realise that
> lujvo exist to be more than just short tanru. For all intents and purposes,
> if we -say- that {pavdei} means "x1 is the first day of week x2" then it
> means that. Oh well.
> 2. {pavmomdei} might be better for that purpose, but it lacks the whole
> day/week/month/year place either way unless we decide to arbitrarily add it.
> 3. {detri} seems perfect. It has the appropriate places, and we should use
> it for -something-. {lo seldetri be li pa} is "the first". It doesn't
> specify the week, so we can assume it means "Monday". We could also simply
> put {pavdetri} because it's the 1 day of ? week of ? month of ? year (cos we
> didn't specify), which means that it's a Monday.
> 4. Cycling colours? Gejyspa, I hate the colours you picked (because there's
> no logical order to them). So, Red Yellow Green Cyan Blue Magenta Black ?
> Sounds lovely to me. Primary Secondary Primary Secondary Primary Secondary
> Black. How you had it was Primary Tertiary Secondary Primary Secondary
> Primary Tertiary, which makes little sense. So, xundei, peldei, ri'odei,
> cicnydei, bladei, nukdei, xekydei.