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[lojban] Re: New to Lojban and a question
Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 03:07:23PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 11:44:16 -0800 (PST), Ryan Gray
>><ryanpatgray@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>>I would think that a logical language such as Lojban would have
>>>more precise words for these ideas.
>>
>>I'm reminded of the Lojban proverb, "The price of infinite
>>precision is infinite verbosity".
>
>
> lo nu cusku se kai lo cimni ka satci cu se sarcu lo nu cusku ci'i da
>
> Unfortunately, satci is (IMO) Wholly unsatisfying for this, and most
> other, uses of the English word "precision". I've yet to come up
> with anything I like much better, though.
satci mapti pei
There is another sense of precise which may be captured in English with
the word "narrow" or "focused" or perhaps "exclusive". (Exclusion of
alternative meanings is what increased verbosity in Lojban provides, in
theory). I am led again to think that we may need a gismu for the
"exclusive" sense of "only" that might apply here. But far be it from
me to propose new gismu %^)
perhaps "narrow in dimension [exactness of] meaning"
lojbab
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