[lojban] Re: No language has separate words for odors. Let's create them.

[gleki <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com>]

It's not. It's only our practice that merges our senses.

One of the discussions in Conlangery Podcast (Episode 6) mentioned that only five languages in the world have separate root words for odors.

I strongly against lujvo. It's non-neutral, not fair and non-scientific.

Then why not replace {titla} with {ka sakta} ?

If so few languages have separate words it doesn't mean that Lojban should follow it.

Lojban is for expanding our views on the world.

So I suggest either zi'evla or even gismu !

As for the sounding  we can take them from those five languages cuz most natlangs as I said just use descriptive words (in English they are Musky, Putrid,Pungent,Camphoraceous, Ethereal,Floral, Pepperminty).

On Tuesday, April 3, 2012 3:13:21 AM UTC+4, la .lindar. wrote:

...or because smell is intrinsically linked with taste we could just use those words? Do we perceive smells the same way we perceive tastes? Does something ever smell sweet or sour? Under what category is the taste of alcohol (whiskey, for example)? Under what smell category?

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