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Re: TEXT: le gunse ku joi le lorxu
In a physics astronomy dept. and he doesn't know what orbital parameters are
%^)
Hey, you don't need to be rigidly technical in what goes in there - these are
linguistic usages, and not scientific ones. An orbital parameter might be
"lenu leni darno cu mitre li pa" if you are going around the stove at a
distance of 1 meter.
What I think is important is to exclude the metaphorical idea that, for example,
Eastern European countries were "ssatellites" of the Soviet Union. Unless
someone can come up with a metaphorical equivalent of the orbital parameters
for a such a usage. Often times a place structure is defined to specifically
constrain and delimit ssuch metaphors (usually to exclude malglicoisms, that
being most of the initial developer's native language).
lojbab