junta [was: Re: [lojban] selma'o considered harmful

["michael helsem" <graywyvern@hotmail.com>]

> From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>
li'o
> At 06:30 PM 8/14/01 +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote:
> >{junta} itself is one of those inexplicable gismu.
> >Why is there a gismu for weight, but none for height,
> >length, size, age, speed, beauty, and so many other
> >names of properties.
>
> I don't recall whether it is because JCB had one (it was not one of his
> core gismu, though it may have been one of those he added then forgot about
> after the Lojban split) or whether it was added because it was a property
> measured by a fundamental SI unit. Or maybe some other reason that I could
> find if I combed the paper archives....

maybe it's because we talk about weight as well as mass, the former being 
more important for everyday speech, but the latter being more
fundamental.

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