[lojban] Re: X1 is X2 by definition.

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 03:43:58AM -0700, Opi Lauma wrote:
> 
> > Not a selbri, since it would be linguistically cumbersome to
> > express all of our definitions as complete sentences including
> > the claim of definition.
>
> Why? Why it should be cumbersome? 

Because of the fun we'd have with nesting.

> For example I want to define "love" as "a strong positive emotion
> of regard and affection". How do I need to do it? 

Many ways.  

Please not that defining gismu in Lojban is Hard, because Lojban
tends not to have many words for the same concept, so some concepts
must be taken as given, and those are generally the gismu.

My Way:

zo prami se smuni di'e .i xy pi pa ke mutce cinmo nelci xy pi re
gi'e djica lo nu di'i kansa xy pi re

Or something like that.  You could put the second half in the x2 of
se smuni, but it'd be a pain.

-Robin

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