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[lojban] Re: "intelligent"?

At 04:53 PM 7/6/03 +0300, Robin Turner wrote:

MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote:
> how does one convey the idea of "intelligent" or "smart" in lojban?  i
> don't see any gismu or lujvo that convey that idea.

A surprising omission - it's not in the gismu list, Nora's lujvo list or
jbovlaste.  The best I can come up with is "xaupei" (xamgu pensi) but
xamgu is far too vague.  I looked for "efficient" and "effective" but
couldn't find anything for those either


"Smart" is polysemous.

Nora and I have used mencre (menli certu)

I would consider for
efficient: sutcre (sutra certu)
effective: ja'ecre (jalge certu)

so you can put menli or men- in front of either of those
or pensi or pes-/pei-

lojbab

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