Re: [lojban] opposite of an extreme

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:35 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}.

I agree.

> 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}.

"cabna la cekspir" is contemporaneous with Shakespeare.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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