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Re: [lojban] Re: word for "action"



Jorge Llamb?as scripsit:

> Googling for "the action of the kidneys" I got 229 hits,
> with things like: "The action of the kidneys is vital and 
> so kidney failure is serious."  

It's medical jargon, which often personifies things like organs.

> Googling for "the action of a rock falling" I got only one:
> "The action of a rock falling to the earth is a process that 
> is entirely dependent upon the nature of the rock - a thing 
> affected by gravity." Bizarre?

I'd say so, yes.  Or just possibly a personification also.

> I assume neither of those is a se zukte nor a se gasnu.

Only if metaphorical.

-- 
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Big as a house, much bigger than a house, it looked to [Sam], a grey-clad
moving hill.  Fear and wonder, maybe, enlarged him in the hobbit's eyes,
but the Mumak of Harad was indeed a beast of vast bulk, and the like of him
does not walk now in Middle-earth; his kin that live still in latter days are
but memories of his girth and his majesty.  --"Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit"