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

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

On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 01:14:49PM -0500, Robert LeChevalier wrote:
> 
> Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> satci mapti  pei

A bit better.  It's the x2 of satci that bothers me.

> There is another sense of precise which may be captured in English
> with the word "narrow" or "focused" or perhaps "exclusive".
> (Exclusion of alternative meanings is what increased verbosity in
> Lojban provides, in theory).  I am led again to think that we may
> need a gismu for the "exclusive" sense of "only" that might apply
> here.  But far be it from me to propose new gismu %^)

I think it's quite a nice idea, actually.

> perhaps "narrow in dimension [exactness of] meaning"

I'll ponder.

-Robin

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