Re: [lojban] baby words: the perenial "move"

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 08:07:06AM -0400, Kevin Reid wrote:
> On Nov 2, 2011, at 3:12, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> 
> > How do I say "wow, you're sure moving your arms a lot", or "stop
> > moving (as in stop waving your arms and legs about)" or similar?
> 
> {tolcando}.
> 
> Note that the gismu list notes for {cando} specifically call "the
> negation of this" as being motion without change in location.

Fascinating.  Can you clean up
http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/dict/tolcando to reflect that please?

Perhaps "x1 is active/busy/moving/in motion (without implying a
change in location)"?

-Robin

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