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Re: [lojban] Direction of Rotation





On Friday, August 10, 2012 11:40:37 AM UTC+4, la .lindar. wrote:
I had an idea. Things can only move circularly in one of two directions. Why not just use {carna fi li pa} and {carna fi li re}, or even {carna fi lo pritu} and {carna fi lo zunle}? 

From a completely unbiased standpoint, without any cultural knowledge, does that unambiguously indicate direction of rotation?
Which way is "left"? Are we measuring from the bottom or the top?
Which way is the "first" rotation? Is that culturally neutral? 
I'm pretty sure that it's not.
doi lindar, your solution works, we only need to to replace "farlu" with something more generalised.
But....

Against lujvo.
Although we can fix any meaning in any lujvo I want something more fundamental.
otherwise we can just replace half of gismu with lujvo. It doesnt make tha language more beautiful.
ju'o if a concept is fundamental it's a semantic prim and deserves a gismu or short fu'ivla/zi'evla.


I have a feeling that this concept of handedness/chirality/handedness/clockwise can be used in so many cases that it should form other lujvo itself. therefore should have may be even rafsi.

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