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Re: [lojban] opposite of an extreme

It'd be nice to be able to use something to take brivla that don't have "by standard xn" places and make a lujvo that has a place like that. For example, if we were going to make a lujvo for "modern", I think Pierre's example of "Modern English" suggests that it have a standard place.

For example, we could coin {stana} to mean "x1 is a standard for x2". Not sure if we would want to fragment this depending on the epistemological context, but this would be an easy enough hack for the time being.

mu'o mi'e .latros.

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
On Thursday 17 March 2011 01:13:52 Luke Bergen wrote:
> would you interpret {to'e tcepru} as {cabna} or {tcebalvi}?
>
> It sounds right that the opposite of "ancient past" is "very modern".  But
> it also seems like the present is a mid-point between the ancient past and
> the distant future.  So both {cabna} and {tcebalvi} seem like intuitively
> good interpretations.

I think {to'e tcepru} is equivalent to {tcebalvi}.

What are good words for "modern"? Sometimes {cabna} isn't quite right. For
instance, Modern English has been spoken since around 1550, but no one living
in Shakespeare's day could now be called {cabna}.

Pierre
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