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

[guskant <gusni.kantu@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 4:02 PM, gleki <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com> 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.
>
> It's not. There are elementary odors just like we have elementary tastes.
> I mentioned them.
>

The number of variety of olfactory receptors is totally different from
that of taste.
remna have at least 347 olfactory receptors to distinguish volatile
chemical materials. Other animals have more. It is too difficult to
use so many categories for expressing smell.

As for color expressions, I agree Escape Landsome.
In addition, remna has only 3 kind of cone cells, but some other
animals have also that for ultra-violet. A robot may have more. In
that case, our set of color words is too small.

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