Re: [lojban] common words

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Pierre Abbat wrote:

> That reminds me of the French for shallow: peu profond.

Not really so strange: anglophones don't hesitate to say that the
*depth* of something is 5 cm, although nobody would call 5 cm *deep*.

> The place structure of "mifra" is: x1 is ciphertext, x2 is plaintext, x3 is the
> type of cipher. What is the place structure of "tolmifra"?

I don't know: what is the opposite of encryption?  I don't know what
"tolmlatu" means either.  Some relationships are not scales.

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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