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Re: [lojban] 2 lujvo
From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>
At 11:36 AM 02/29/2000 -0800, michael helsem wrote:
>1) there is a word i am using, "sharawadgi", to indicate things
>which contain opposites such as a pattern of red & green, or
>hot & cold (Baked Alaska), ktp. i am thinking the way to say
>this in Lojban is 'opposite-quality-conjunction-quality' DUTKAIRKAXYKAI.
The original example in Loglan of what is now joi referred to the
stereotypical multicolored beach ball. This suggests something like dutki
gunma as a metaphorical basis.
>2) if one tends to count by fives of things (as we think in
>"twos" (opposites), would this be: 'five-basis' MUMCMU, 'fivesome-basis'
>MUMEMCMU; or would the latter become, as a
>lujvo, MUMYMEMCMU ?
>
>3) & also, how to talk about thinking-in terms of-a given
>count-as basic? 'basic unit of counted things' CMUTERKANCU, or
>'basic set of things counted' CMUSELKANCU ? (i am leaning
>toward the latter).
I would base both 2 and 3 on kancu, but have not thought deeply about it.
lojbab
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