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Re: [lojban] Expressing in Lojban concepts there aren't gismu for
At 09:07 AM 08/21/2000 +0000, zon9@hotmail.com wrote:
The gismu list at http://www.lojban.org/files/wordlists/gismu gives,
for example, the Lojban words "logji" for "logic", "cmaci"
for "mathematics", "saske" for a loose meaning of "science",
and "citri" for "history", but I haven't found any Lojban words
anywhere for "logician", "mathematician", "scientist", "historian",
etc. How can you express these concepts, and others like them in
general, in Lojban?
Depends on what you mean by them. There is no single word in the gismu
list since there is no gismu for them. Probably there are several lujvo
for each, but the lujvo list is perpetually in need of volunteers to come
up with glosses and eventually place structures for words that have been
used in Lojban text.
What is a mathematician? A mathematics-person? A mathematics-expert? A
mathematics-studier? A mathematics-teacher? A mathematics-user? Each of
those and many others would be a separate Lojban tanru that could be made
into a distinct compound, and all of them could be translated in the right
contexts as "mathematician".
Incidentally, I haven't seen any Lojban word for "philosophy"
anywhere either, so how can you express this in Lojban?
This word has all of the nebulosity of the above words and then some. You
need to define the word before you can hope to make a Lojban word for
it. If you merely want to loan translate from the Greek, something like
wisdom-fond would be a usable tanru, but few would understand you I think.
lojbab
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