[lojban] Re: [Archivist] Mathematical gismu.

[Robert LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>]

Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> (I seem to be doing this a lot lately; see what writing in Lojban
> does to you?)
> 
> There are non-agentive (i.e. mathematical) gismu for plus (sumji) and
> multiply (pilji), but not for minus or divide, that I can find.
> 
> IIRC there are agentive versions of all four.
> 
> Is there any paritcular reason for this, or is it just more upside
> down gismu syndrome?

It seemed easy enough to make lujvo for the two inverse operations, 
either something like reverse-add, reverse-multiply, or in a pinch 
mekso-divide, mekso-remove (remembering that originally, we weren't 
concerned about semantically derived place structure).

lojbab



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