Re: [lojban] Another comic (Again!)

[Remo Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com>]

2010/11/2 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Remo Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com> wrote:
>> At the moment I have:  {pu sazgau fi le sinxa} = "the signal has been
>> activated"
>
> I'm not sure I see the connection between sazri and "activate".

Oh! I would have said I took {sazgau} from jbovlaste but I can't seem
to find it anywhere!
I can't remember how I came up with this one.


> I've always missed a couple (or at least one) gismu for "is on" and
> "is off". The best I came up with is cando/tolcando or cando/cikna or
> sipna/cikna.
>
> I would probably have used "tolcadgau" or "cikygau" for "activate".

Also Pierre suggested {tolcadgau}.

I can see that {lo tolcando} must be "on" (if it's an apparate or a
machine) but {lo cando} is not necessarily "off" (it could be "on" but
simply doing nothing). It seems un-lojbanic to me to have {tolbroda}
not being the real opposite of {broda}.

What if we consider that something that is "on" is "capable of some
activity" and something that is "off" is not?

Remo

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