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Re: [lojban] RE:literalism
At 02:32 PM 10/20/2000 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
>PINJI DINJU sounds like a bathhouse.
Maybe, but I would take {pinjydi'u} to be an obelisk.
And skyscrapers are obelisks in shape.
I'd say {gledi'u} for
bathhouse.
pinjydi'u: x1 is an obelisk/skyscraper for x2, being the penis of x3 (such as
an Egyptian god) or sticking out of x3
Exactly what I had in mind. Now where does a building stick out of? Out
of the site at which it is located. So I would modify that to:
pinjydi'u: x1 is an obelisk/skyscraper for (purpose) x2, sticking out
of/located at site x3
Metaphoric, and it still generates a useful place structure. And it brings
sex into yet another Lojban discussion. What more could we ask for %^)
lojbab
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