Re: Lojban analogies and kennings

[Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe@apocalypse.org>]

Thanks for your reply, Mark.

>From: mark@kli.org
>
> >A central part of Kennexions is forming "kennings," which are an
> >ancient Norse poetic form based on analogies. Example:
> >
> >   E1. psychology : mind :: biology : body
> >
> >   E2. Psychology is to the mind as biology is to the body.
> >
> >   E3. psychology = mind biology
> >
> >E2 above is a restatement of E1 in ordinary English. E3 shows a
> >kenning ("mind biology") which is a poetic restatement of the word
> >"psychology."
>
>So it's sort of making those SAT analogy questions, poetically?

You might say that. Actually, the kenning is prior to the analogy. It 
was only later that people realised that implicit in kennings were 
four terms, and therefore four kennings. For example, assume that 
"mind biology" for "psychology" _was_ a classical Norse kenning. Now 
people realise that "body psychology" for "biology" is also implicit.

> >   L1. menske : menli :: ji'eske : xadni
>
>OK, this is a hybrid of Lojban with English/mathematical notation.  As
>such, is cool.

Yeah, I know it's not grammatical (see remarks below in original). 
But thanks for the help with mekso. Very interesting.

See also my post to Jorge.

--Ron

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