[lojban] Re: round numbers

[Bob LeChevalier <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

Pierre Abbat wrote:
>"Вокруг" means "around" so that's no different.

The Russian word is much closer to sruri than to cukla.

Methinks the etymological fallacy has erupted.  Lojban is not obliged to 
loan translate just because other languages did loan-translation.

> Actually in #1 "round" is a verb. I was thinking of something involving 
> {satci}, but a number can be nalsatci je jibni without being rounded.

But at least there is some relationship to the tanru and the meaning

There is nothing 2-dimensional-circular about a "round" number even if 
many languages loan-translate the bad metaphor using that keyword (cukla 
of course is not synonymous with all meaning of "round", only the 
2-dimension-circular meaning.  "Row, row, row your boat is not a 'cukla 
selsanga'" either).

My best guess as to "cukla namcu" would be that it refers to a number 
related to 3.14159...  There are very few other namcu that pertain to 
cukla in any consistent way.

lojbab





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