[lojban] Re: directions

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- Pierre Abbat wrote:

> Currently we have a set of gismu (berti, stuna, snanu, stici) and a set of 
> tense markers (be'a, du'a, ne'u, vu'a) for denoting directions. The gismu can
> be made into lujvo, so we can say {le bloti cu bersicyberberti le gusydi'u} 
> "the boat is north by east of the lighthouse", but how do we say "the boat is
> going east northeast"? 

You could say {le bloti cu bersunstuna muvdu} or 
{le bloti muvdu lo bersunstuna}.

Why not use the same convention for the tenses?
{le bloti mo'i be'a du'a du'a zvati}

> Then there are directions in degrees, minutes, and 
> seconds, such as {li nyxacipi'erexapi'enoxavy farna le fanmo le krasi be le 
> nu caxmati xirma klama} (that one comes up in my CAD drawings because of 
> roundoff error). How do we use one of those as a selbri or as a tense?

{va'e} will convert a number o lerfu-string into a scale selbri.
That would seem to fit here.

{fi'o} will convert the selbri to a tag.

mu'o mi'e xorxes



		
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