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Re: [lojban] srana le'i sucta cmavo



In a message dated 4/2/2001 7:33:33 PM Central Daylight Time,
jjllambias@hotmail.com writes:



I don't know, it is certainly not the ciska part that is fun.
And in "I write for a living", it would not usually be the nu
ciska for which one would be paid. finti a given work would
be a process, but finti for a living would be an activity,
I think.



Okay, although in the long term of things I suspect that more people have
been paid for the writing than the inventing part.  Here and now is another
matter. But the general case -- for money or not -- is an activity with a
related state (being an author -- but can one do that without having authored
anything? Lojban being what it is, yes.).

<We do have krinu and mukti, but terzukte seems to include both
"purpose" and "goal".>

Which makes it a little hard to figure out when they don't coincide.  
"purpose" seems to be {terdji} but I need to run through the places a few
times to be sure.  and {krinu} and {mukti} need looking at as well.  What, I
wonder, is unequivocally "goal"?

<we need a word for "activity" other than {selzukte}.>
But {selzukte} is a non-starter since it clearly (and overtly) includes
processes -- at least.