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Re: [lojban] baby words, sort of: "side"



  Which, of course, Robin himself created many years ago ;-)
          --gejyspa

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 4:42 AM, Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 12:11:16AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>
> Lojban doesn't really have any good/obvious ways to talk about sides
> of an object, i.e. "you have a sunburn on your left side".
>
> I've thought of using {zunle pagbu} for that, and that's decent
> enough.  There's a case this doesn't cover, though, which is "on one
> side", i.e. "one side of the mushroom will make you grow taller".
> mlana is of no help at all.

I looked up http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/dict/mlapau, and couldn't find anything seriously wrong with the place structure.

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