Re: [lojban] skari

[Craig Daniel <craigbdaniel@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Sebastian Fröjd <so.cool.ogi@gmail.com> wrote:
> well, I can't really drop this topic.
> I now agree with you that gismu should be left vague. Anyway, when I first
> came in contact with lojban I thought that it was pretty cool to think about
> the exact meaning of words; to be unambigous, not only grammatical but also
> semantically.

Most gismu unambiguously carve out a single semantic space, but a
fairly broad one. It's very easy, in Lojban, to be unambiguous but
vague.

> So isn't it possible to construct a color system with lujvos, which has
> exact definitions without being to technical (=using numbers) each time you
> would like to use them? My color definition system would be very consistent,
> and I would like to use it, even if not all lojbanists would.

Yes.

> So my question is: what prefix would I use to distinguish my color
> definitions from the more vague standard?
> my suggestion is {marxu'e} or {na'orxu'e} for red #FF0000. What do you
> think?

I'd be inclined to coin a short fu'ivla referring to the color scheme,
define it precisely, and then use its rafsi. For example, for giving
all colors hex values based on HTML color codes, you could coin the
fu'ivla ".y'ytmle" or something (that's a nonce word being used as an
example; I don't know if there is a standard fu'ivla for HTML, and
that one is pretty ugly), then refer to colors in your color space as
".y'ytmlyskari," with specific colors being things like
".y'ytmlyxu'e."

 - mi'e .kreig.daniyl.

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