Re: [lojban] Re: Back and rear

[Pierre Abbat <phma@oltronics.net>]

On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, thinkit8@lycos.com wrote:
>--- In lojban@y..., Pierre Abbat <phma@o...> wrote:
>> How do you distinguish back and rear in Lojban?
>> 
>> phma
>
>well, back is already ti'a.  for "rear", how about ti'a ca'u?

I'm talking brivla, not tenses. We have trixe, which appears to be back, but is
also glossed rear. Humans are oriented differently than most mammals, so we get
confused talking about backs, rears, and fronts, so we have come up with
dorsal, ventral, anterior, and posterior so as not to get confused. How do you
make this distinction in Lojban?

phma