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




On Thursday, August 16, 2001, at 01:33 AM, Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote:

At 09:44 PM 8/15/01 +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote:BTW, noting that Lojban defaults to using SI units in measurement, I intended that you can express such messes as g m/sec**2 (newton?) as lujvo
based on such tanru as ni bapli [kei] gradu and acceleration as ni sutra
cenba [kei] gradu.

This seemed better than JCB's approach, which in 1986-7 included adding
gismu for "volt" and other commonly used units, though those additions seem
not to have made it into his revised Loglan 1 gismu list.

They may not have made it into the latest edition of Loglan 1, but all these units in a Loglanized form remained in the dictionary. It is much more convenient to say that such and such newtons the number 2 than to explain it in
terms of fundamental SI units.
On the other hand, I believe JCB would have considered revri for all forms of E dreaming, but would have strongly encouraged specification by the speaker/writer with lujvo to indicate the type of mental activity involved. Indeed, the current Loglan dictionary has the lujvo bad-dream (nightmare) awake-dream (daydream, reverie) dream-look (wonder) and awake-dream-desire (one sense of fancy). JCB was very fond of metaphor in luvo, such as time-stretching for boring.
Sincerely,

Robert A McIvor