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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.
--
John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan
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"