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

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

On Tuesday, April 3, 2012 10:47:08 AM UTC+4, Escape Landsome wrote:

> However, I don't think we need separate words of Lojban for categories
> of smell. An odor is a combination of various volatile chemical
> materials. If you need to express precisely an odor, you should
> perform chemical analysis of the contents of the odor. Lojbanize the
> result, and you will get an _expression_ to the odor.

Then by the same argument, should not a color be described as some
wavelength only ?

Color is somewhat different. The range there is continuous whereas tongue and nose have only few distinct, non-overlapping receptors for each smell and taste.

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