[lojban] Re: Direction of Rotation

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

On Friday, August 10, 2012 11:48:50 AM UTC+4, la .lindar. wrote:

I apologise for being crabby. I felt insulted that you had assumed I was asking for the definition of the place; I can look that up myself. I felt it was fairly obvious from context what was my intent, but I can see where there could be confusion. I also felt insulted that you felt the need to explain to me that rotation isn't dependent on gravity. I know this. I passed high school. I'm sure it was entirely unintentional, but you've come off as rather condescending.

I've reacted rather poorly, however, and assumed that you had some sort of malevolent intent. I don't imagine this is the case, and I apologise for reacting as though it was.

I think it's my fault. We started discussing this stuff in #lojban chat  and then moved here.

And lindar published only an extract of our conversation.

Lindar knew that {farlu} wasn't the most generalised gismu that we could use. It was just an example of this concept.

Conlusion: lindar is not stupid.

Currently I think that this concept is not related to motion at all. It should be called chirality.

If {farna} is just a vector and {klama} is a movement according to such vector then

"chirality" is a twisted vector and {carna} is a movement according to such vector.

Sorry for such term as "twisted vector" but I'm not an expert in such things.

If there are mathematicians or topologists around please enlighten us.

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