[lojban] Re: how to say manifold

[jordi mas <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

> --- Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> 
> > Looks like time for a fu'ivla to me. 
> cmacrmanifolda, maybe.
> 
> Why borrow it from English? In some fields, it does
> make sense to 
> borrow English terms, but I'm not sure mathematics
> is such a field. 
> In Spanish it is called "variedad" or "variedad
> matemática", i.e. 
> a translation of the usual meaning of "manifold".

{coi xorxes}, by saying "a translation" like that 
you are assuming that the term originated in
English. But mathematics is definitely not such a
field. Maybe it was the other way round, 
and historically "manifold" is a
translation of the Romance "variété/variedad".

> I propose {cmacyvrici}.

Me too.

mu'omi'e jordis



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