Re: Dao De Jing [was Re: Promoting Lojban]

[Robin Turner <robin@bilkent.edu.tr>]

la stiv. cusku di'e

> > NOTE: I've followed the use of {dadjo} because I don't know how to render
> > "dao" into Lojban.  However, {dadjo} is Taoist/Taoistic, not Tao.
>
> How about: munje tadji?  (The way of the universe)

Hmm, has a certain ring.  "Dao" originally has more of the sense of "way" as in
"path" or "route" rather than "method" (look at the ideogram) , but has come to
include the latter as well, especially in it's Japanese version "do".  Using
{munji} also enables expression of the contrasts found in the Dao De Jing
between "the Dao of Heaven" and "the Dao of man" {remna tadji}.  I guess,
though, that the problem in finding a Lojban word for Dao/Tao is the
ineffability of the idea itself!

co'o mi'e robin.