Re: [lojban] Re: New to Lojban and a question

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 03:07:23PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 11:44:16 -0800 (PST), Ryan Gray
> <ryanpatgray@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I would think that a logical language such as Lojban would have
> > more precise words for these ideas.
> 
> I'm reminded of the Lojban proverb, "The price of infinite
> precision is infinite verbosity". 

lo nu cusku se kai lo cimni ka satci cu se sarcu lo nu cusku ci'i da

Unfortunately, satci is (IMO) Wholly unsatisfying for this, and most
other, uses of the English word "precision".  I've yet to come up
with anything I like much better, though.

-Robin

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